Sanja Surname
Approximately 2,882 people bear this surname
Sanja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 733 | 1:72,226 | 7,551 |
| Ghana | 554 | 1:48,774 | 5,381 |
| Kenya | 467 | 1:98,886 | 8,681 |
| Uganda | 359 | 1:108,745 | 10,656 |
| Indonesia | 285 | 1:464,032 | 38,383 |
| India | 152 | 1:5,046,483 | 126,094 |
| Peru | 59 | 1:538,714 | 14,638 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Latvia | 32 | 1:64,064 | 9,614 |
| Germany | 31 | 1:2,596,950 | 129,424 |
| Cameroon | 24 | 1:865,378 | 58,754 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| United States | 14 | 1:25,889,924 | 709,614 |
| Mexico | 12 | 1:10,343,850 | 40,270 |
| Pakistan | 11 | 1:16,240,353 | 64,496 |
| Zimbabwe | 10 | 1:1,543,824 | 78,460 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 1:2,312,062 | 9,186 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| North Macedonia | 4 | 1:525,368 | 20,918 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Croatia | 4 | 1:1,057,151 | 57,892 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 1:1,768,201 | 16,841 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
Sanja (65,292) may also be a first name.
Sanja Demographics
Average Sanja Salary in
United States
$19,250 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sanja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sanja (Bengali: সঞ্জা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻨﺠﻪ, Hindi: संजा, Marathi: संजा, Oriya: ସ, Tibetan: སཱན་ཇ་) is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 152,649th most frequently used surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 2,528,642 people. The last name Sanja occurs mostly in Africa, where 76 percent of Sanja are found; 54 percent are found in East Africa and 53 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Sanja is also the 14,750th most frequent first name worldwide. It is borne by 65,292 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Tanzania, where it is held by 733 people, or 1 in 72,226. In Tanzania Sanja is primarily found in: Dodoma Region, where 84 percent are found, Singida Region, where 13 percent are found and Simiyu Region, where 1 percent are found. Aside from Tanzania Sanja is found in 52 countries. It is also found in Ghana, where 19 percent are found and Kenya, where 16 percent are found.
Sanja Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
The amount Sanja earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Peru they earn 40.94% less than the national average, earning S/. 11,448 per year and in United States they earn 55.39% less than the national average, earning $19,250 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sanja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sanja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﻨﺠﻪ | snjh | - |
| Sanja in the Marathi language | ||
| संजा | sanja | 74.6 |
| संजय | sanjaya | 17.46 |
| सन्जा | sanja | 1.59 |
| सांजा | sanja | 0.79 |
| संजाा | sanjaa | 0.79 |
| सजा | saja | 0.79 |
| Sanja in the Bengali language | ||
| সঞ্জা | sanja | 69.57 |
| সানজা | sanaja | 13.04 |
| সনজা | sanaja | 8.7 |
| সঞ্জ | sanja | 4.35 |
| সান্জা | sanja | 4.35 |
| Sanja in the Hindi language | ||
| संजा | sanja | 57.59 |
| सन्जा | sanja | 23.24 |
| सांजा | sanja | 11.2 |
| संज्ञा | sanjna | 2.15 |
| संजय | sanjaya | 2.07 |
| सान्जा | sanja | 1.23 |
| सनजा | sanaja | 0.69 |
| साँजा | samja | 0.31 |
| सन्जो | sanjo | 0.15 |
| संजेा | sanjea | 0.15 |
| संज़ा | sanza | 0.15 |
| संजो | sanjo | 0.08 |
| सांज्ञा | sanjna | 0.08 |
| सन्जू | sanju | 0.08 |
| सॉजा | soja | 0.08 |
| संजू | sanju | 0.08 |
| सॉंंजा | somnja | 0.08 |
| सांज | sanja | 0.08 |
| सानजा | sanaja | 0.08 |
| Sanja in the Tibetan language | ||
| སཱན་ཇ་ | senja | 46.58 |
| སན་ཇ་ | senja | 34.25 |
| སན་ཇཱ་ | senja | 4.11 |
| སངས་ཟ་ | sangza | 2.74 |
| སངས་ཇ་ | sangja | 2.74 |
| སན་ཇིབ་ | senjib | 1.37 |
| སངས་རྒྱ་ | sanggya | 1.37 |
| སཱན་ཇ། | senja | 1.37 |
| སན་ཇའ་ | senja | 1.37 |
| སཱ་ཇ་ | saja | 1.37 |
| སནཱ་རྒྱ་ | sanagya | 1.37 |
| སངྱས་ | sangyé | 1.37 |
| Sanja in the Oriya language | ||
| ସ | sa | 24.39 |
| ସା | sa | 23 |
| ମାଝୀ | majhi | 13.94 |
| ପଧାନ | padhana | 12.54 |
| ସଂଜ | sanja | 9.06 |
| ସାା | saa | 4.88 |
| କହଁର | kahamra | 4.53 |
| ରଣା | rana | 1.39 |
| ସାଂଜା | sanja | 0.7 |
| ସାଂଜ | sanja | 0.7 |
| ସନ୍ଯା | san'ya | 0.35 |
| ସାହା | saha | 0.35 |
| ହଂସ | hansa | 0.35 |
| ଗନିକ | ganika | 0.35 |
| ସଂଯ | sanya | 0.35 |
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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
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sanja
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