Yajan Surname
Approximately 229 people bear this surname
Yajan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 168 | 1:191,388 | 3,677 |
| Indonesia | 26 | 1:5,086,507 | 239,866 |
| India | 18 | 1:42,614,743 | 461,117 |
| Thailand | 8 | 1:8,829,793 | 476,604 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 1:44,660,971 | 115,884 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Yajan (127) may also be a first name.
Yajan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yajan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yajan (Hindi: यजन, Marathi: यजन, Oriya: ଯାଜନ) is found most frequently in Afghanistan. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yajan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,079,669th most frequently held surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 31,823,345 people. The last name Yajan occurs predominantly in Asia, where 87 percent of Yajan reside; 83 percent reside in South Asia and 75 percent reside in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 825,494th most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 127 people.
It is most frequently held in Afghanistan, where it is borne by 168 people, or 1 in 191,388. In Afghanistan it is most common in: Farah, where 98 percent reside, Nangarhar, where 2 percent reside and Khost, where 1 percent reside. Barring Afghanistan this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 11 percent reside and India, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yajan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yajan in the Oriya language | ||
| ଯାଜନ | yajana | - |
| Yajan in the Marathi language | ||
| यजन | yajana | - |
| Yajan in the Hindi language | ||
| यजन | yajana | 61.54 |
| याजन | yajana | 30.77 |
| यजान | yajana | 7.69 |
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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 Yajan
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