Wadji Surname
Approximately 1,886 people bear this surname
Wadji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 1,005 | 1:14,507 | 450 |
| Cameroon | 383 | 1:54,227 | 7,038 |
| Indonesia | 227 | 1:582,596 | 46,553 |
| India | 107 | 1:7,168,835 | 157,365 |
| Niger | 46 | 1:417,218 | 11,489 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Benin | 26 | 1:397,523 | 29,143 |
| Philippines | 18 | 1:5,624,346 | 177,167 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Wadji (904) may also be a first name.
Wadji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wadji Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wadji is carried by more people in Senegal than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wadji? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wadji is the 217,420th most widely held surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 3,864,022 people. The surname Wadji is mostly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Wadji live; 58 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 269,907th most frequently used first name globally, borne by 904 people.
Wadji is most frequent in Senegal, where it is held by 1,005 people, or 1 in 14,507. In Senegal Wadji is primarily concentrated in: Diourbel Region, where 52 percent live, Dakar Region, where 32 percent live and Thiès Region, where 6 percent live. Not including Senegal it is found in 22 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 20 percent live and Indonesia, where 12 percent live.
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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 Wadji
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