Wonja Surname
Approximately 177 people bear this surname
Wonja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 173 | 1:120,052 | 13,748 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Wonja (77) may also be a first name.
Wonja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wonja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wonja is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Wonja click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wonja? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,286,243rd most frequently occurring surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 41,172,576 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Wonja live; 98 percent live in Central Africa and 98 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,100,117th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 77 people.
The surname Wonja is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 173 people, or 1 in 120,052. In Cameroon Wonja is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 60 percent reside, Centre Region, where 28 percent reside and Southwest Region, where 10 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Ethiopia, where 1 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Wonja
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