Hadja Surname
Approximately 24,118 people bear this surname
Hadja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 20,891 | 1:994 | 78 |
| Yemen | 511 | 1:51,713 | 4,082 |
| Burkina Faso | 482 | 1:38,075 | 1,941 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| Niger | 460 | 1:41,722 | 2,211 |
| Philippines | 331 | 1:305,856 | 43,129 |
| Algeria | 278 | 1:138,962 | 18,807 |
| Ivory Coast | 218 | 1:105,831 | 5,423 |
| Indonesia | 91 | 1:1,453,288 | 98,507 |
| France | 84 | 1:790,747 | 95,785 |
| Kosovo | 77 | 1:24,180 | 2,664 |
| Benin | 74 | 1:139,670 | 14,797 |
| Albania | 54 | 1:53,964 | 6,888 |
| Mauritania | 16 | 1:255,929 | 11,901 |
| India | 11 | 1:69,733,217 | 610,955 |
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Belgium | 7 | 1:1,642,378 | 98,400 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Hadja (119,672) may also be a first name.
Hadja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hadja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hadja (Arabic: حعجع, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﺎﺟﻪ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Hadja click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hadja? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hadja is the 22,525th most numerous family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 302,162 people. The surname Hadja is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Hadja are found; 81 percent are found in West Africa and 58 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Hadja is also the 8,622nd most frequent first name internationally, held by 119,672 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 20,891 people, or 1 in 994. In Cameroon Hadja is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 69 percent are found, Adamawa Region, where 13 percent are found and North Region, where 13 percent are found. Besides Cameroon it is found in 34 countries. It is also found in Yemen, where 2 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hadja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hadja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺣﺎﺟﻪ | hajh | 51.81 |
| ﻫﺎﺟﺎ | haja | 12.05 |
| ﺣﺎﺟﺔ | hajt | 10.84 |
| ﺣﺪﺝ | hdj | 4.82 |
| ﻫﺠﺎ | hja | 4.82 |
| ﺣﺎﺝ | haj | 3.61 |
| ﺍﻟﺤﺎﺟﻪ | alhajh | 3.61 |
| ﺣﺎﺟﺎ | haja | 2.41 |
| ﻫﺎﺩﺟﺎ | hadja | 2.41 |
| ﻫﺪﺟﺎ | hdja | 1.2 |
| Hadja in the Arabic language | ||
| حعجع | hj | - |
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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 Hadja
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