Eliajah Surname
Approximately 126 people bear this surname
Eliajah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 109 | 1:1,625,163 | 60,488 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Eliajah (255) may also be a first name.
Eliajah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Eliajah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Eliajah is most common in Nigeria. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Eliajah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,604,449th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 57,837,666 people. Eliajah occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Eliajah reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 557,860th most commonly held forename throughout the world, borne by 255 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 109 people, or 1 in 1,625,163. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Ondo, where 13 percent are found, Akwa Ibom, where 12 percent are found and Benue, where 12 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 5 percent are found and Ghana, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Eliajah
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