Shafras Surname
Approximately 981 people bear this surname
Shafras Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 950 | 1:21,904 | 2,929 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
Shafras (986) may also be a first name.
Shafras Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shafras Come From? nationality or country of origin
Shafras occurs most in Sri Lanka. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Shafras? popularity and diffusion
The surname Shafras is the 367,166th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 7,428,691 people. The surname Shafras occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Shafras reside; 97 percent reside in South Asia and 97 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Shafras is also the 256,549th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 986 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Sri Lanka, where it is borne by 950 people, or 1 in 21,904. Apart from Sri Lanka Shafras occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in Qatar, where 1 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Shafras
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