Sanjira Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Sanjira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| India | 46 | 1:16,675,334 | 263,471 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Sanjira (5,528) may also be a first name.
Sanjira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanjira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sanjira (Hindi: संजीरा, Marathi: संजीरा, Oriya: ସିରା) is carried by more people in Malawi than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanjira? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,073,555th most frequently occurring last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 31,547,818 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 80 percent of Sanjira reside; 79 percent reside in Southern Africa and 79 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Sanjira is also the 90,259th most widely held forename on earth, borne by 5,528 people.
It is most widely held in Malawi, where it is carried by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Excluding Malawi Sanjira occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 20 percent reside and Pakistan, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sanjira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sanjira in the Marathi language | ||
| संजीरा | sanjira | - |
| Sanjira in the Hindi language | ||
| संजीरा | sanjira | 89.61 |
| सन्जीरा | sanjira | 6.06 |
| संजिरा | sanjira | 2.38 |
| सनजीरा | sanajira | 1.62 |
| सन्जिरा | sanjira | 0.22 |
| सनजिरा | sanajira | 0.11 |
| Sanjira in the Oriya language | ||
| ସିରା | sira | 40 |
| ସାିରା | saira | 30 |
| ସଂଜିରା | sanjira | 20 |
| ୀରା | ira | 10 |
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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 Sanjira
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