Namja Surname
Approximately 61 people bear this surname
Namja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
Namja (227) may also be a first name.
Namja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Namja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Namja (Hindi: नमजा, Marathi: नजमा, Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱ།) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Namja.
How Common Is The Last Name Namja? popularity and diffusion
Namja is the 2,460,878th most commonly held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 119,467,966 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 69 percent of Namja reside; 69 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 596,468th most frequent forename globally, held by 227 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 41 people, or 1 in 506,563. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Far North Region, where 100 percent reside. Barring Cameroon this surname exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 11 percent reside and The Philippines, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Namja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Namja in the Hindi language | ||
| नमजा | namaja | 71.43 |
| नामजा | namaja | 23.81 |
| नम्जा | namja | 4.76 |
| Namja in the Marathi language | ||
| नजमा | najama | 66.67 |
| नाजमा | najama | 33.33 |
| Namja in the Tibetan language | ||
| རྣམ་རྒྱ། | namgya | 50 |
| རྣམ་ཇ། | namja | 50 |
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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 Namja
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