Bonja Surname
Approximately 1,811 people bear this surname
Bonja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1,449 | 1:67,320 | 6,648 |
| United States | 57 | 1:6,358,929 | 302,882 |
| Argentina | 41 | 1:1,042,522 | 64,438 |
| Nigeria | 37 | 1:4,787,642 | 126,894 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Croatia | 33 | 1:128,140 | 18,569 |
| Albania | 21 | 1:138,765 | 11,419 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| South Africa | 12 | 1:4,514,809 | 137,638 |
| Philippines | 9 | 1:11,248,691 | 221,039 |
| Turkey | 9 | 1:8,646,825 | 130,497 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Slovenia | 6 | 1:414,612 | 18,975 |
| Poland | 6 | 1:6,334,792 | 156,558 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Syria | 3 | 1:6,433,674 | 16,197 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
Bonja (3,879) may also be a first name.
Bonja Demographics
Bonja Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Bonja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bonja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bonja is found most in Ethiopia. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bonja? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 224,610th most commonly used last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 4,024,045 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Bonja live; 81 percent live in East Africa and 80 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Bonja is also the 112,645th most frequent given name in the world, held by 3,879 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 1,449 people, or 1 in 67,320. Apart from Ethiopia Bonja occurs in 36 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 3 percent reside and Argentina, where 2 percent reside.
Bonja Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Bonja surname is primarily Muslim (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States Bonja are 33.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 80% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Bonja earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 46.65% less than the national average, earning R 126,780 per year and in United States they earn 59.62% more than the national average, earning $68,875 USD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Bonja
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