Elejah Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Elejah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 30 | 1:5,904,759 | 145,253 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Elejah (96) may also be a first name.
Elejah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Elejah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Elejah occurs most in Nigeria. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Elejah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,274,477th most commonly occurring family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Elejah reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Elejah is also the 968,397th most widespread given name on earth, held by 96 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 30 people, or 1 in 5,904,759. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Niger, where 20 percent live, Osun, where 20 percent live and Ekiti, where 17 percent live. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent live and India, where 3 percent live.
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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 Elejah
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