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
Elejah is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Elejah? popularity and diffusion
Elejah is the 3,274,477th most numerous family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname Elejah is predominantly found 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 frequently used first name world-wide, held by 96 people.
The last name Elejah is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 30 people, or 1 in 5,904,759. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Niger, where 20 percent reside, Osun, where 20 percent reside and Ekiti, where 17 percent reside. Other than Nigeria this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent reside and India, where 3 percent reside.
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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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