Wajiri Surname
Approximately 178 people bear this surname
Wajiri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 71 | 1:292,522 | 27,501 |
| Nigeria | 57 | 1:3,107,768 | 95,628 |
| Niger | 25 | 1:767,681 | 17,983 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wajiri (339) may also be a first name.
Wajiri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wajiri Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wajiri is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wajiri? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,281,391st most common surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 40,941,269 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Wajiri live; 47 percent live in West Africa and 39 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 474,488th most numerous first name on earth It is held by 339 people.
The last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is carried by 71 people, or 1 in 292,522. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Northwest Region, where 90 percent live, Southwest Region, where 3 percent live and Adamawa Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Cameroon it exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 32 percent live and Niger, where 14 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 Wajiri
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