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
The last name Tarfaya is borne by more people in Egypt than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tarfaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tarfaya is the 264,801st most frequently occurring surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 4,930,681 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Tarfaya live; 99 percent live in North Africa and 56 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held given name on earth It is held by 13 people.
It is most frequent in Egypt, where it is borne by 824 people, or 1 in 111,573. Outside of Egypt this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 43 percent reside and France, where 0 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
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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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