Gadjaga Surname
Approximately 190 people bear this surname
Gadjaga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 155 | 1:118,401 | 3,420 |
| Senegal | 30 | 1:485,978 | 2,132 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Gadjaga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gadjaga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gadjaga (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﺟﺎﻛﺎ) has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gadjaga? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gadjaga is the 1,227,038th most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 38,355,505 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gadjaga live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 65 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 155 people, or 1 in 118,401. In Burkina Faso Gadjaga is most prevalent in: Est Region, where 41 percent live, Sahel Region, where 21 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 15 percent live. Without taking into account Burkina Faso Gadjaga is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Senegal, where 16 percent live and Niger, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gadjaga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gadjaga in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﺟﺎﻛﺎ | kajaka | - |
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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 Gadjaga
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