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 last name Badjai is found most frequently in Benin. It may be found in the variant forms: Badjaï or Badjaî. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Badjai? popularity and diffusion
Badjai is the 3,017,195th most frequently held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Badjai live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 40 people, or 1 in 258,390. In Benin it is most frequent in: Donga Department, where 98 percent live and Littoral Department, where 3 percent live. Apart from Benin it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 5 percent live.
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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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