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
Hadja (Arabic: حعجع, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺣﺎﺟﻪ) is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Hadja click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hadja? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 22,525th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 302,162 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Hadja live; 81 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 8,622nd most commonly occurring given name world-wide. It is borne by 119,672 people.
The surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 20,891 people, or 1 in 994. In Cameroon Hadja is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 69 percent live, Adamawa Region, where 13 percent live and North Region, where 13 percent live. Other than Cameroon this surname occurs in 34 countries. It is also found in Yemen, where 2 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 2 percent live.
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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