Godji Surname
Approximately 1,482 people bear this surname
Godji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 432 | 1:53,406 | 3,233 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Benin | 361 | 1:28,630 | 3,801 |
| Cameroon | 169 | 1:122,894 | 14,008 |
| Niger | 74 | 1:259,352 | 8,161 |
| South Africa | 14 | 1:3,869,836 | 127,494 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Godji (653) may also be a first name.
Godji Demographics
Average Godji Salary in
South Africa
R 70,992
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Godji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Godji Come From? nationality or country of origin
Godji is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Godji? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 264,221st most frequently used surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 4,917,372 people. The surname Godji is mostly found in Africa, where 91 percent of Godji reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 72 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Godji is also the 324,981st most commonly used forename in the world, borne by 653 people.
The last name is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 432 people, or 1 in 53,406. In The Ivory Coast Godji is most common in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 40 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 31 percent reside and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 20 percent reside. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 28 percent reside and Benin, where 24 percent reside.
Godji Last Name Statistics demography
Godji earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 70.13% less than the national average, earning R 70,992 per year.
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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 Godji
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