Maouja Surname
Approximately 8 people bear this surname
Maouja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Maouja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maouja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Maouja (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻮﺟﻪ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Maouja? popularity and diffusion
The surname Maouja is the 6,723,624th most widely held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 910,943,240 people. Maouja is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Maouja live; 88 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The last name is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 584,980. In Mauritania Maouja is mostly concentrated in: Trarza Region, where 100 percent live. Excluding Mauritania this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 13 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Maouja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Maouja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻮﺟﻪ | mwjh | - |
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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 Maouja
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