Baladja Surname
Approximately 67 people bear this surname
Baladja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 61 | 1:169,436 | 16,929 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
Baladja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Baladja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Baladja (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻼﺟﻪ) is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Baladja? popularity and diffusion
The surname Baladja is the 2,333,370th most frequently held family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 108,769,342 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Baladja are found; 93 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Baladja is most frequent in Benin, where it is held by 61 people, or 1 in 169,436. In Benin it is most frequent in: Collines Department, where 72 percent live, Ouémé Department, where 20 percent live and Zou Department, where 7 percent live. Other than Benin this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The Philippines, where 6 percent live and Mauritania, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Baladja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Baladja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻼﺟﻪ | blajh | - |
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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 Baladja
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