Zafran Surname
Approximately 4,220 people bear this surname
Zafran Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 1,912 | 1:93,433 | 3,070 |
| Sri Lanka | 585 | 1:35,570 | 4,375 |
| Israel | 310 | 1:27,605 | 4,005 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| United States | 178 | 1:2,036,286 | 130,241 |
| Yemen | 161 | 1:164,132 | 7,832 |
| Philippines | 101 | 1:1,002,359 | 86,102 |
| England | 98 | 1:568,552 | 34,674 |
| United Arab Emirates | 96 | 1:95,440 | 8,441 |
| Malaysia | 79 | 1:373,345 | 19,730 |
| Turkey | 74 | 1:1,051,641 | 46,826 |
| Bahrain | 73 | 1:18,474 | 3,432 |
| Slovenia | 72 | 1:34,551 | 6,690 |
| Argentina | 65 | 1:657,591 | 45,740 |
| France | 41 | 1:1,620,066 | 149,911 |
| Canada | 29 | 1:1,270,538 | 90,455 |
| Russia | 23 | 1:6,266,220 | 254,708 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 1:8,816,613 | 340,855 |
| Afghanistan | 12 | 1:2,679,432 | 17,028 |
| Serbia | 11 | 1:649,541 | 22,440 |
| Ukraine | 10 | 1:4,552,270 | 216,874 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Uruguay | 6 | 1:571,960 | 26,877 |
| Lebanon | 4 | 1:1,409,271 | 19,641 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Žafran (276) & Zafrán (1) are calculated separately.
Zafran (5,052) may also be a first name.
Zafran Demographics
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Zafran Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zafran Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zafran (Arabic: زفران, Bengali: জাফরান, Hindi: ज़फ़रन, Oriya: ଜାଫାନ, Russian: Зафран) is carried by more people in Pakistan than any other country/territory. It can be found as: Žafran or Zafrán. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Zafran? popularity and diffusion
The surname Zafran is the 110,197th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 1,726,907 people. Zafran occurs mostly in Asia, where 87 percent of Zafran live; 60 percent live in South Asia and 46 percent live in Islamic South Asia. Zafran is also the 95,607th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 5,052 people.
The last name Zafran is most frequently occurring in Pakistan, where it is held by 1,912 people, or 1 in 93,433. In Pakistan Zafran is primarily concentrated in: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 42 percent are found, Punjab, where 33 percent are found and Sindh, where 8 percent are found. Other than Pakistan this last name is found in 43 countries. It is also common in Sri Lanka, where 14 percent are found and Israel, where 7 percent are found.
Zafran Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Zafran surname is principally Sunni (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those holding the Zafran surname are 18.51% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 71.74% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Zafran earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 0.39% less than the national average, earning $42,982 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.15% less than the national average, earning $42,154 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zafran Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zafran in the Bengali language | ||
| জাফরান | japharana | - |
| Zafran in the Oriya language | ||
| ଜାଫାନ | japhana | - |
| Zafran in the Hindi language | ||
| ज़फ़रन | zafarana | 77.78 |
| जाफरान | japharana | 14.81 |
| ज़फरन | zapharana | 3.7 |
| ज़ाफरान | zapharana | 3.7 |
| Zafran in the Russian language | ||
| Зафран | zafran | - |
| Zafran in the Arabic language | ||
| زفران | zfran | - |
| ظفران | zfran | - |
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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 Zafran
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