Bedjah Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Bedjah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 39 | 1:104,996 | 6,429 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
Bedjah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bedjah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bedjah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﺠﺎﻩ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bedjah? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bedjah is the 2,876,555th most frequently used surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 158,424,911 people. Bedjah occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Bedjah reside; 85 percent reside in West Africa and 85 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
Bedjah is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 104,996. In Mauritania it is most numerous in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 51 percent live, Trarza Region, where 31 percent live and Brakna Region, where 15 percent live. Aside from Mauritania it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 11 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bedjah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bedjah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﺠﺎﻩ | bjah | 90 |
| ﺍﺑﺠﺎﻩ | abjah | 10 |
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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 Bedjah
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