Shafya Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Shafya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 11 | 1:16,240,353 | 64,496 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
Shafya (154) may also be a first name.
Shafya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Shafya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Shafya (Hindi: शफया, Marathi: शि़फया) occurs more in Pakistan more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Shafya.
How Common Is The Last Name Shafya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,649,889th most common surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. This surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 94 percent of Shafya live; 89 percent live in South Asia and 78 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 740,891st most numerous first name globally, held by 154 people.
This surname is most frequent in Pakistan, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 16,240,353. In Pakistan Shafya is most prevalent in: Sindh, where 82 percent live, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 9 percent live and Punjab, where 9 percent live. Barring Pakistan this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in India, where 17 percent live and Bangladesh, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Shafya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Shafya in the Marathi language | ||
| शि़फया | siphaya | 83.33 |
| शिफया | siphaya | 16.67 |
| Shafya in the Hindi language | ||
| शफया | saphaya | 78.95 |
| शाफया | saphaya | 15.79 |
| शाफ्या | saphya | 5.26 |
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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 Shafya
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