Tarfaya Surname
Approximately 1,478 people bear this surname
Tarfaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 824 | 1:111,573 | 9,244 |
| Algeria | 641 | 1:60,268 | 10,073 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tarfaya (13) may also be a first name.
Tarfaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tarfaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tarfaya is found most frequently in Egypt. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tarfaya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 264,801st most numerous last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 4,930,681 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Tarfaya are found; 99 percent are found in North Africa and 56 percent are found in Arabic North Africa. Tarfaya is also the 3,159,357th most commonly used first name throughout the world. It is borne by 13 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Egypt, where it is carried by 824 people, or 1 in 111,573. Besides Egypt this last name exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 43 percent live and France, 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
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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 Tarfaya
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