Sylfa Surname
Approximately 197 people bear this surname
Sylfa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haiti | 195 | 1:54,789 | 3,230 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Sylfa (31) may also be a first name.
Sylfa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sylfa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sylfa occurs most in Haiti. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sylfa? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,198,640th most commonly occurring last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 36,992,619 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Sylfa live; 99 percent live in Caribbean and 99 percent live in Gallo-Caribbean. Sylfa is also the 1,874,099th most commonly used given name on earth, held by 31 people.
The surname is most widely held in Haiti, where it is held by 195 people, or 1 in 54,789. In Haiti it is primarily found in: Ouest, where 88 percent are found and Nord, where 12 percent are found. Besides Haiti it is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylfad | 91 | 4 | / |
| Sylfat | 91 | 1 | / |
| Silfa | 80 | 1,925 | / |
| Selfa | 80 | 1,137 | / |
| Zylfa | 80 | 118 | / |
| Sylpha | 73 | 205 | / |
| Zylfaj | 73 | 71 | / |
| Selfaj | 73 | 28 | / |
| Shilfa | 73 | 21 | / |
| Zylfai | 73 | 8 | / |
| Selfas | 73 | 4 | / |
| Silfat | 73 | 3 | / |
| Silfah | 73 | 2 | / |
| Shelfa | 73 | 1 | / |
| Sylfoi | 73 | 1 | / |
| Szilfa | 73 | 1 | / |
| Selfah | 73 | 1 | / |
| Silfau | 73 | 1 | / |
| Sylfet | 73 | 0 | / |
| Sylphat | 67 | 249 | / |
| Szilfai | 67 | 162 | / |
| Sylfest | 67 | 21 | / |
| Silfast | 67 | 10 | / |
| Selfast | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sylphas | 67 | 1 | / |
| Selfaya | 67 | 1 | / |
| Selfaux | 67 | 0 | / |
| Sylfist | 67 | 0 | / |
| Silfeas | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Sylfa
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