Ejjar Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Ejjar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 17 | 1:240,874 | 11,443 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Ejjar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ejjar Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ejjar (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺟﺎﺭ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ejjar? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,649,889th most commonly used last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Ejjar are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
The last name Ejjar is most commonly used in Mauritania, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 240,874. In Mauritania Ejjar is primarily found in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 65 percent are found, Trarza Region, where 29 percent are found and Assaba Region, where 6 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in Spain, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ejjar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ejjar in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺟﺎﺭ | ajar | 75 |
| ﺍﻟﺠﺎﺭ | aljar | 25 |
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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 Ejjar
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