Sefiya Surname
Approximately 3,306 people bear this surname
Sefiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 3,220 | 1:30,294 | 3,612 |
| Nigeria | 75 | 1:2,361,903 | 79,171 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Sefiya (10,544) may also be a first name.
Sefiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sefiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sefiya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻔﻴﻪ, Hindi: सेफिया, Marathi: सेफीया) occurs in Ethiopia more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sefiya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 135,867th most commonly occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 2,204,339 people. Sefiya occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sefiya live; 97 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Sefiya is also the 59,142nd most common first name worldwide, held by 10,544 people.
The surname Sefiya is most prevalent in Ethiopia, where it is carried by 3,220 people, or 1 in 30,294. Besides Ethiopia this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 2 percent reside and India, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sefiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sefiya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﻔﻴﻪ | sfyh | - |
| Sefiya in the Marathi language | ||
| सेफीया | sephiya | 93.75 |
| सेलीया | seliya | 6.25 |
| Sefiya in the Hindi language | ||
| सेफिया | sephiya | 93.33 |
| सेफीया | sephiya | 3.33 |
| सॅफिया | sephiya | 3.33 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sefiya
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