Surname Shafia

Surname Shafia (Shafia , شفيع , شافية ) , across the world, is quite a common cognomen. The cognomen Shafia is characteristic of Maldives, where it is quite a common surname, Bahrain, and Iran, where it is quite a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. More frequently, Shafia is the forename as well as the last name.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Shafia

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Shafia	Indonesia, Somalia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
شفيع	Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq
شافية	Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq
Шафи	Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine

Last names said to be same

Şafia, Шафиа, Шафья, and Шафя

Notable namesakes

louisa shafia Iranian-American chef and cookbook author, US

Characteristic forenames

Bi, Ashraf, Akhter, Kausar, Khanam, Khatun, Rashid, Rahman, Nuzhat, Sheikh, Hassan, Sultana, Khatoon, Khawaja, Parveen, Hossion, Hussain, Mohammed, Tabassum, Fatima, Shaikh, Shahid, Haque, Mir, Ali, Jan, Shah, Bano, Bibi, Khan, Rana, Malik, Memon, Shaik, Syeda, Anjum, Ahmad, Ahmed, Banoo, Begam, Begum, Naeem, Chowdhury, and Fatima Bilal