Surname Rafia

Family name Rafia (Rafia , رفيعة , رفيعه ) , throughout the world, is quite a common surname. The cognomen Rafia is characteristic of Morocco, where it is quite a rare surname, Ghana, and Bahrain. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Nigeria, Morocco, and Bangladesh. More frequently, Rafia is the forename as well as the last name.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Rafia

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Rafia	Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Morocco
رفيعة	Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Libya
رفيعه	Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Palestinian Territory, Iran, Jordan
رافيا	Iraq

Last names said to be same

Rafià, Rafiâ, Rafía, Ráfia, Рафиа, Рафья, רפיעה, and ราเฟีย

Notable namesakes

	rachid rafia researcher
	chirine rafia researcher
	hamza rafia French-Tunisian association football player, TN (b. 1999)

Characteristic forenames

Ali, Sheikh, Ansari, Arshad, Kausar, Khanam, Khatun, Rashid, Rahman, Rehman, Fatima, Sultana, Khatoon, Parveen, Rasheed, Hussain, Qureshi, Mohammed, Siddiqui, Sulthana, Shaikh, Tabassum, Shahid, Islam, Jan, Naz, Shah, Syed, Banu, Bano, Bibi, Khan, Malik, Shaik, Anjum, Ahmad, Ahmed, Banoo, Begam, Begum, Javed, Tariq, Hasan, Iqbal, and Chowdhury