Tenja Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Tenja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Tenja (894) may also be a first name.
Tenja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tenja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tenja (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﺠﻪ, Hindi: तेंजा, Tibetan: བསྟན་རྒྱས།) is found most in Uganda. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tenja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,307,654th most widespread family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 347,025,996 people. The surname Tenja occurs mostly in Africa, where 81 percent of Tenja live; 57 percent live in East Africa and 57 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 271,765th most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 894 people.
Tenja is most commonly held in Uganda, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 3,253,273. In Uganda it is most prevalent in: Kaliro District, where 75 percent live, Budaka District, where 8 percent live and Kamuli District, where 8 percent live. Excluding Uganda this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 19 percent live and South Africa, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tenja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tenja in the Hindi language | ||
| तेंजा | tenja | 80 |
| तेन्जा | tenja | 13.33 |
| तेनजा | tenaja | 6.67 |
| Tenja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﺠﻪ | tnjh | 71.08 |
| ﺗﻨﺞ | tnj | 22.55 |
| ﺗﻨﺠﻰ | tnjy | 2.94 |
| ﺗﻨﺠﺔ | tnjt | 2.45 |
| ﺗﻴﻨﺞ | tynj | 0.49 |
| Tenja in the Tibetan language | ||
| བསྟན་རྒྱས། | tengyé | 33.33 |
| བསྟན་རྒྱས་ | tengyé | 33.33 |
| བསྟན་རྒྱ་ | tengya | 33.33 |
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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 Tenja
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