Janneh Surname
Approximately 22,633 people bear this surname
Janneh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambia | 12,497 | 1:154 | 37 |
| Sierra Leone | 9,341 | 1:759 | 145 |
| Liberia | 251 | 1:17,564 | 1,794 |
| United States | 199 | 1:1,821,402 | 119,204 |
| England | 141 | 1:395,164 | 27,358 |
| Spain | 62 | 1:754,065 | 31,946 |
| Sweden | 46 | 1:214,060 | 14,843 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| Canada | 17 | 1:2,167,388 | 133,872 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Janneh (1,834) may also be a first name.
Janneh Demographics
Janneh Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Janneh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Janneh Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Janneh (Arabic: جانيه) is carried by more people in The Gambia than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Janneh.
How Common Is The Last Name Janneh? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 23,906th most frequent family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 321,988 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Janneh live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Janneh is also the 178,130th most frequently held given name worldwide, borne by 1,834 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in The Gambia, where it is carried by 12,497 people, or 1 in 154. Without taking into account The Gambia this last name exists in 35 countries. It is also common in Sierra Leone, where 41 percent reside and Liberia, where 1 percent reside.
Janneh Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is principally Shiite (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Janneh surname are 18.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 72% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Janneh earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 33.14% less than the national average, earning 231,374 kr per year; in United States they earn 10.36% less than the national average, earning $38,679 USD per year and in Canada they earn 25.82% less than the national average, earning $36,853 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Janneh Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Janneh in the Arabic language | ||
| جانيه | janyh | - |
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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 Janneh
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