Alhji Surname
Approximately 501 people bear this surname
Alhji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 476 | 1:372,149 | 19,844 |
| Niger | 20 | 1:959,601 | 21,357 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Alhji (533) may also be a first name.
Alhji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alhji Come From? nationality or country of origin
Alhji is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Alhji? popularity and diffusion
The surname Alhji is the 615,220th most widely held family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 14,546,000 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Alhji are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Alhji is also the 365,345th most widely held forename in the world, borne by 533 people.
The last name Alhji is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 476 people, or 1 in 372,149. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Sokoto, where 18 percent reside, Jigawa, where 16 percent reside and Zamfara, where 12 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 4 percent reside and Cameroon, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Alhji
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