Adja Surname
Approximately 24,330 people bear this surname
Adja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 15,112 | 1:1,527 | 159 |
| Togo | 3,255 | 1:2,227 | 277 |
| Benin | 1,826 | 1:5,660 | 745 |
| Cameroon | 1,464 | 1:14,187 | 1,938 |
| Algeria | 1,289 | 1:29,970 | 5,481 |
| Ghana | 416 | 1:64,954 | 6,785 |
| Indonesia | 248 | 1:533,263 | 43,166 |
| Nigeria | 223 | 1:794,362 | 35,535 |
| Niger | 133 | 1:144,301 | 5,339 |
| Philippines | 116 | 1:872,743 | 80,276 |
| France | 73 | 1:909,900 | 105,096 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Mauritania | 26 | 1:157,495 | 8,595 |
| Burkina Faso | 23 | 1:797,917 | 8,915 |
| United States | 19 | 1:19,076,786 | 604,894 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Adja (62,950) may also be a first name.
Adja Demographics
Average Adja Salary in
United States
$73,500 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Adja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Adja (Arabic: ادجا, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺟﻪ) is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Adja click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 22,336th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 299,529 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 84 percent of Adja live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 71 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Adja is also the 15,249th most common given name in the world It is held by 62,950 people.
Adja is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 15,112 people, or 1 in 1,527. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Zanzan District, where 40 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 22 percent are found and Lagunes District, where 18 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 33 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 13 percent are found and Benin, where 8 percent are found.
Adja Last Name Statistics demography
Adja earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 70.34% more than the national average, earning $73,500 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Adja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺟﻪ | ajh | 27.78 |
| ﺁﺟﺎ | aja | 27.78 |
| ﺁﺝ | aj | 11.11 |
| ﺃﺟﺎ | aja | 5.56 |
| ﺃﺝ | aj | 5.56 |
| ﺍﻋﺞ | aj | 5.56 |
| ﺁﺩﺟﺎ | adja | 5.56 |
| ﺍﺟﻪ | ajh | 5.56 |
| ﺃﺟﻪ | ajh | 5.56 |
| Adja in the Arabic language | ||
| ادجا | adja | - |
| يدجي | ydjy | - |
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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 Adja
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