Jaza Surname
Approximately 1,738 people bear this surname
Jaza Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 575 | 1:94,222 | 11,515 |
| Indonesia | 296 | 1:446,788 | 37,223 |
| Tanzania | 223 | 1:237,406 | 19,419 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Iran | 98 | 1:783,495 | 39,531 |
| Iraq | 73 | 1:479,749 | 8,022 |
| Lebanon | 36 | 1:156,586 | 7,507 |
| Cameroon | 33 | 1:629,366 | 47,277 |
| India | 18 | 1:42,614,743 | 461,117 |
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| France | 17 | 1:3,907,219 | 231,005 |
| Uganda | 15 | 1:2,602,619 | 75,106 |
| Sweden | 14 | 1:703,340 | 52,204 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| North Macedonia | 10 | 1:210,147 | 13,835 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Syria | 5 | 1:3,860,204 | 11,832 |
| Tunisia | 5 | 1:122,125 | 16,050 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Palestine | 3 | 1:1,516,283 | 17,268 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Jaza (833) may also be a first name.
Jaza Demographics
Average Jaza Salary in
South Africa
R 121,740
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Jaza Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jaza Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Jaza (Arabic: جاظه, Hindi: जहा, Tibetan: ཇཱ་ཛ།) occurs most in South Africa. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Jaza? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 232,309th most frequently occurring surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 4,193,064 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 51 percent of Jaza are found; 34 percent are found in Southern Africa and 34 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 282,935th most commonly occurring given name internationally, held by 833 people.
It is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is borne by 575 people, or 1 in 94,222. In South Africa Jaza is mostly concentrated in: Eastern Cape, where 75 percent reside, Western Cape, where 12 percent reside and Gauteng, where 8 percent reside. Apart from South Africa this last name occurs in 51 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 17 percent reside and Tanzania, where 13 percent reside.
Jaza Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Jaza has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Jaza last name fell 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Jaza Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Jaza surname is principally Muslim (50%) in Kenya and Sunni (97%) in Lebanon.
Jaza earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 48.77% less than the national average, earning R 121,740 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jaza Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jaza in the Hindi language | ||
| जहा | jaha | 50 |
| जजा | jaja | 50 |
| Jaza in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཇཱ་ཛ། | jadza | 33.33 |
| ཇ་ཟ། | jaza | 33.33 |
| ཇ་ཛ། | jadza | 33.33 |
| Jaza in the Arabic language | ||
| جاظه | jazh | - |
| جزعا | jza | - |
| جزاء | jza | - |
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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 Jaza
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