Choji Surname
Approximately 9,684 people bear this surname
Choji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 8,843 | 1:20,032 | 1,828 |
| Japan | 736 | 1:173,701 | 8,324 |
| Brazil | 36 | 1:5,946,509 | 145,792 |
| Cameroon | 29 | 1:716,175 | 51,453 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1:9,446,371 | 356,066 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
Choji (21,196) may also be a first name.
Choji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Choji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Choji (Marathi: चोजी, Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་) is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Choji? popularity and diffusion
Choji is the 52,790th most prevalent family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 752,535 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Choji reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 91 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 36,205th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 21,196 people.
The surname Choji is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 8,843 people, or 1 in 20,032. In Nigeria Choji is most frequent in: Plateau, where 95 percent are found, Kaduna, where 1 percent are found and Federal Capital Territory, where 1 percent are found. Not including Nigeria Choji is found in 15 countries. It is also found in Japan, where 8 percent are found and Brazil, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Choji Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Choji in the Marathi language | ||
| चोजी | coji | - |
| Choji in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆོས་རྗེ་ | chöjé | 33.33 |
| ཆོས་ཇི་ | chöji | 33.33 |
| ཆོས་རྗེ། | chöjé | 33.33 |
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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 Choji
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