Sfawa Surname
Approximately 716 people bear this surname
Sfawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 715 | 1:247,752 | 14,344 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sfawa (322) may also be a first name.
Sfawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sfawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sfawa is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sfawa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 469,321st most frequently occurring family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,178,137 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sfawa live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 488,964th most commonly used first name throughout the world, borne by 322 people.
The surname Sfawa is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 715 people, or 1 in 247,752. In Nigeria Sfawa is primarily concentrated in: Zamfara, where 40 percent live, Sokoto, where 33 percent live and Jigawa, where 16 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sfawa
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