Badjara Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Badjara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Badjara (111) may also be a first name.
Badjara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Badjara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Badjara is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Badjara? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,427,875th most frequently held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 364,377,296 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Badjara live; 55 percent live in Central Africa and 50 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Badjara is also the 890,531st most prevalent given name world-wide. It is borne by 111 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 1,888,097. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 91 percent live and Far North Region, where 9 percent live. Besides Cameroon this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 15 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 15 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 Badjara
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