Keffa Surname
Approximately 1,328 people bear this surname
Keffa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 758 | 1:22,585 | 3,433 |
| Ivory Coast | 419 | 1:55,063 | 3,316 |
| Ethiopia | 49 | 1:1,990,740 | 8,024 |
| Liberia | 43 | 1:102,524 | 8,134 |
| Kenya | 23 | 1:2,007,822 | 36,224 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Keffa (1,423) may also be a first name.
Keffa Demographics
Keffa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Keffa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keffa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Keffa (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻔﻪ, Russian: Кеффа) is most common in Malawi. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Keffa.
How Common Is The Last Name Keffa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 288,746th most widely held family name in the world, held by around 1 in 5,487,610 people. The last name Keffa occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Keffa live; 57 percent live in Southern Africa and 57 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 206,897th most commonly occurring first name at a global level. It is borne by 1,423 people.
The surname is most numerous in Malawi, where it is held by 758 people, or 1 in 22,585. Without taking into account Malawi this last name occurs in 18 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 32 percent live and Ethiopia, where 4 percent live.
Keffa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Keffa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Keffa in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻔﻪ | kfh | - |
| Keffa in the Russian language | ||
| Кеффа | keffa | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Keffa
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