Badjam Surname
Approximately 1,930 people bear this surname
Badjam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,190 | 1:17,453 | 2,387 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Benin | 294 | 1:35,155 | 4,553 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Badjam (1,459) may also be a first name.
Badjam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Badjam Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Badjam occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Badjam? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 213,360th most widely held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 3,775,931 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Badjam live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 37 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 204,108th most frequently used first name internationally, held by 1,459 people.
This last name is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 1,190 people, or 1 in 17,453. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: North Region, where 52 percent reside, Far North Region, where 43 percent reside and Centre Region, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 22 percent reside and Benin, where 15 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 Badjam
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