Ganja Surname
Approximately 6,858 people bear this surname
Ganja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4,355 | 1:176,134 | 10,823 |
| Iran | 795 | 1:96,582 | 9,553 |
| Tanzania | 516 | 1:102,600 | 10,029 |
| Afghanistan | 334 | 1:96,267 | 2,534 |
| Malaysia | 239 | 1:123,407 | 8,074 |
| Papua New Guinea | 163 | 1:50,023 | 6,268 |
| Moldova | 85 | 1:41,898 | 6,324 |
| Uganda | 72 | 1:542,212 | 30,029 |
| Zimbabwe | 57 | 1:270,846 | 28,330 |
| United States | 54 | 1:6,712,202 | 314,667 |
| Uzbekistan | 22 | 1:1,405,870 | 25,726 |
| Brazil | 21 | 1:10,194,016 | 213,214 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Canada | 20 | 1:1,842,280 | 119,096 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Pakistan | 12 | 1:14,886,990 | 61,272 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| Austria | 10 | 1:851,544 | 67,454 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
| Nepal | 8 | 1:3,560,120 | 10,569 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Ganja (4,445) may also be a first name.
Ganja Demographics
Average Ganja Salary in
United States
$47,667 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Ganja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ganja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ganja (Arabic: كنجه, Bengali: গঞ্জ, Georgian: განჯა, Hindi: गंजा, Marathi: गांजा, Oriya: ଗା, Tibetan: གཱན་ཇ་) occurs in India more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ganja? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ganja is the 71,946th most frequent family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 1,062,634 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 84 percent of Ganja are found; 80 percent are found in South Asia and 63 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Ganja is also the 103,343rd most frequently occurring given name on earth. It is borne by 4,445 people.
This surname is most frequently used in India, where it is carried by 4,355 people, or 1 in 176,134. In India Ganja is mostly concentrated in: Andhra Pradesh, where 64 percent are found, Gujarat, where 17 percent are found and Madhya Pradesh, where 7 percent are found. Other than India this last name exists in 33 countries. It also occurs in Iran, where 12 percent are found and Tanzania, where 8 percent are found.
Ganja Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Ganja has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Ganja surname expanded 771 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Ganja Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is predominantly Muslim (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States Ganja are 13.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 60% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Ganja earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 58.72% less than the national average, earning R 98,088 per year; in United States they earn 10.47% more than the national average, earning $47,667 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.14% more than the national average, earning $52,236 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ganja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ganja in the Georgian language | ||
| განჯა | ganja | - |
| Ganja in the Bengali language | ||
| গঞ্জ | ganja | 80 |
| গঞ্জা | ganja | 20 |
| Ganja in the Hindi language | ||
| गंजा | ganja | 79.67 |
| गांजा | ganja | 11.42 |
| गन्जा | ganja | 7.52 |
| गनजा | ganaja | 0.56 |
| गंगा | ganga | 0.28 |
| गाँजा | gamja | 0.28 |
| Ganja in the Marathi language | ||
| गांजा | ganja | 63.04 |
| गंजा | ganja | 33.15 |
| गंगा | ganga | 1.63 |
| गन्स | gansa | 0.54 |
| Ganja in the Oriya language | ||
| ଗା | ga | 49.09 |
| ଗ | ga | 18.18 |
| ଗଂଜା | ganja | 9.09 |
| ପଧାନ | padhana | 5.45 |
| ଗାା | gaa | 5.45 |
| ଜାନି | jani | 3.64 |
| ଗଣ୍ଜା | ganja | 1.82 |
| ଗଂଜ | ganja | 1.82 |
| େସନା | esana | 1.82 |
| Ganja in the Tibetan language | ||
| གཱན་ཇ་ | genja | 32 |
| གན་ཇཱ་ | genja | 26 |
| གན་ཇ་ | genja | 24 |
| གང་ཇ་ | gangja | 6 |
| གཱ་ཇ་ | gaja | 2 |
| དགེན་ཇའ་ | genja | 2 |
| གར་ཇ་ | garja | 2 |
| དགན་ཇཱ་ | genja | 2 |
| གཱན་ཇཱ་ | genja | 2 |
| གན་ཇའ་ | genja | 2 |
| Ganja in the Arabic language | ||
| كنجه | knjh | - |
| غانيا | ghanya | - |
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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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- 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 Ganja
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