Agaja Surname
Approximately 515 people bear this surname
Agaja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 321 | 1:551,847 | 26,913 |
| India | 142 | 1:5,401,869 | 131,616 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4 | 1:340,994 | 12,383 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
Agaja (131) may also be a first name.
Agaja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Agaja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Agaja (Arabic: اغاجي, Marathi: अगजा) occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Agaja.
How Common Is The Last Name Agaja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 602,749th most frequently held surname globally, borne by around 1 in 14,150,575 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 69 percent of Agaja reside; 63 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 811,108th most commonly occurring first name internationally It is held by 131 people.
The surname Agaja is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 321 people, or 1 in 551,847. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Benue, where 28 percent are found, Kogi, where 22 percent are found and Kwara, where 17 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name is found in 13 countries. It also occurs in India, where 28 percent are found and Uganda, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Agaja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Agaja in the Marathi language | ||
| अगजा | agaja | - |
| Agaja in the Arabic language | ||
| اغاجي | aghajy | - |
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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 Agaja
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