Vafakis Surname
Approximately 146 people bear this surname
Vafakis Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 143 | 1:77,481 | 13,045 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
Vafakis Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vafakis Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Vafakis is more frequently found in Greece than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Vafakis? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,459,453rd most common surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 49,914,698 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Vafakis are found; 99 percent are found in Southeastern Europe and 98 percent are found in Helleno-Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Greece, where it is borne by 143 people, or 1 in 77,481. In Greece it is most frequent in: Crete, where 79 percent are found, East Macedonia and Thrace, where 17 percent are found and Attica, where 3 percent are found. Besides Greece this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Bulgaria, where 1 percent are found and Germany, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Vafakis
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