Orji Surname
Approximately 182,738 people bear this surname
Orji Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
---|---|---|---|
Nigeria | 179,255 | 1:988 | 123 |
Togo | 1,365 | 1:5,310 | 1,020 |
Ghana | 1,039 | 1:26,006 | 3,108 |
United States | 441 | 1:821,902 | 63,073 |
England | 323 | 1:172,502 | 15,799 |
South Africa | 103 | 1:525,997 | 42,056 |
Canada | 20 | 1:1,842,280 | 119,096 |
Germany | 15 | 1:5,367,031 | 196,901 |
Iceland | 13 | 1:29,238 | 2,297 |
Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
United Arab Emirates | 10 | 1:916,227 | 36,116 |
Netherlands | 10 | 1:1,688,718 | 81,846 |
Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
Poland | 6 | 1:6,334,792 | 156,558 |
Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
Libya | 4 | 1:1,560,994 | 3,087 |
Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
South Korea | 4 | 1:12,810,064 | 2,073 |
Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
Ireland | 3 | 1:1,569,646 | 17,286 |
Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
Northern Cyprus | 2 | 1:159,506 | 9,062 |
Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
Orji (15,597) may also be a first name.
Orji Demographics
Orji Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Orji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orji Come From? nationality or country of origin
Orji (Marathi: ओरजी) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Orji? popularity and diffusion
The last name Orji is the 3,084th most widespread last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 39,880 people. The last name Orji is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Orji reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Orji is also the 45,163rd most frequently held first name worldwide, held by 15,597 people.
The last name Orji is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 179,255 people, or 1 in 988. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Anambra, where 19 percent are found, Imo, where 18 percent are found and Abia, where 16 percent are found. Not including Nigeria it occurs in 54 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 1 percent are found and Ghana, where 1 percent are found.
Orji Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is chiefly Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Orji surname are 45.36% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 98.59% registered with the party.
The amount Orji earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 24.1% more than the national average, earning R 294,912 per year; in United States they earn 1.65% less than the national average, earning $42,436 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.58% less than the national average, earning $46,912 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Orji Name Transliterations
Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
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Orji in the Marathi language | ||
ओरजी | oraji | - |
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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 Orji
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