Banjes Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Banjes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Banjes (33) may also be a first name.
Banjes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Banjes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Banjes (Marathi: बेन्जीस) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Banjes? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,908,606th most frequent surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Banjes live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Banjes is also the 1,807,719th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 33 people.
The surname Banjes is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria Banjes is primarily concentrated in: Plateau, where 100 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in India, where 6 percent reside and South Africa, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Banjes Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Banjes in the Marathi language | ||
| बेन्जीस | benjisa | - |
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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 Banjes
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