Badjai Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Badjai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 40 | 1:258,390 | 22,474 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
The alternate forms: Badjaï (30) & Badjaî (1) are calculated separately.
Badjai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Badjai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Badjai is more frequently found in Benin than any other country/territory. It may appear as: Badjaï or Badjaî. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Badjai? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,017,195th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 173,512,998 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Badjai are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most common in Benin, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 258,390. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Donga Department, where 98 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 3 percent are found. Outside of Benin it exists in one country. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Badjai
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