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 last name Badjara is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Badjara? popularity and diffusion
Badjara is the 4,427,875th most widely held family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Badjara are found; 55 percent are found in Central Africa and 50 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 890,531st most widely held first name throughout the world, borne by 111 people.
This last name is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 1,888,097. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Littoral Region, where 91 percent reside and Far North Region, where 9 percent reside. Besides Cameroon this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 15 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, 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 Badjara
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