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
Choji (Marathi: चोजी, Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་) occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Choji? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 52,790th most commonly held last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 752,535 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Choji are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 91 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Choji is also the 36,205th most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 21,196 people.
The surname Choji is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 8,843 people, or 1 in 20,032. In Nigeria Choji is primarily found in: Plateau, where 95 percent live, Kaduna, where 1 percent live and Federal Capital Territory, where 1 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this surname exists in 15 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 8 percent live and Brazil, where 0 percent live.
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
- 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 Choji
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