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
Sanja Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Sanja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sanja (Bengali: সঞ্জা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﻨﺠﻪ, Hindi: संजा, Marathi: संजा, Oriya: ସ, Tibetan: སཱན་ཇ་) is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 152,649th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,528,642 people. The surname Sanja is primarily found in Africa, where 76 percent of Sanja live; 54 percent live in East Africa and 53 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 14,750th most prevalent first name at a global level, borne by 65,292 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is carried by 733 people, or 1 in 72,226. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Dodoma Region, where 84 percent reside, Singida Region, where 13 percent reside and Simiyu Region, where 1 percent reside. Apart from Tanzania it occurs in 52 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 19 percent reside and Kenya, where 16 percent reside.
Sanja Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is chiefly 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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