Taffa Surname
Approximately 2,574 people bear this surname
Taffa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,449 | 1:67,320 | 6,648 |
| Niger | 310 | 1:61,910 | 2,915 |
| Benin | 293 | 1:35,275 | 4,566 |
| South Africa | 232 | 1:233,525 | 24,103 |
| Australia | 74 | 1:364,807 | 30,412 |
| United States | 41 | 1:8,840,462 | 379,649 |
| Nigeria | 37 | 1:4,787,642 | 126,894 |
| Ivory Coast | 34 | 1:678,566 | 19,270 |
| New Caledonia | 21 | 1:13,153 | 3,514 |
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Taffa (5,175) may also be a first name.
Taffa Demographics
Average Taffa Salary in
United States
$19,839 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Taffa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Taffa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Taffa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻃﻔﻰ, Russian: Таффа) is more commonly found in Ethiopia than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Taffa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 167,978th most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 2,831,214 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 93 percent of Taffa are found; 56 percent are found in East Africa and 56 percent are found in Ethiosemitic Africa. It is also the 94,156th most widespread first name at a global level, held by 5,175 people.
Taffa is most commonly held in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 1,449 people, or 1 in 67,320. Not including Ethiopia Taffa exists in 29 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 12 percent live and Benin, where 11 percent live.
Taffa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Taffa has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Taffa surname expanded 2,050 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Taffa Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Taffa earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 18.67% less than the national average, earning R 193,260 per year; in Colombia they earn 18.2% more than the national average, earning $26,834,500 COP per year and in United States they earn 54.02% less than the national average, earning $19,839 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Taffa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Taffa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻃﻔﻰ | tfy | 33.33 |
| ﻃﻔﺎ | tfa | 33.33 |
| ﺗﻔﺎ | tfa | 16.67 |
| ﻃﻔﺎﺀ | tfa | 16.67 |
| Taffa in the Russian language | ||
| Таффа | taffa | - |
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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 Taffa
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