Awaje Surname
Approximately 830 people bear this surname
Awaje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 799 | 1:221,706 | 13,081 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 1:3,775,510 | 36,567 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
The alternate forms: Ãwaje (1) are calculated separately.
Awaje (464) may also be a first name.
Awaje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awaje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Awaje (Marathi: आवजे) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Ãwaje. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awaje? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 418,547th most widely held family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 8,780,176 people. The surname Awaje is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Awaje reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 395,684th most frequently held forename throughout the world, borne by 464 people.
Awaje is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 799 people, or 1 in 221,706. In Nigeria it is most common in: Nasarawa, where 50 percent are found, Kaduna, where 29 percent are found and Kano, where 8 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 2 percent are found and Venezuela, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Awaje Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Awaje in the Marathi language | ||
| आवजे | avaje | 66.67 |
| आवाजे | avaje | 33.33 |
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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 Awaje
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