Yandja Surname
Approximately 2,056 people bear this surname
Yandja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 1,785 | 1:4,060 | 684 |
| Cameroon | 166 | 1:125,115 | 14,217 |
| DR Congo | 75 | 1:985,061 | 64,020 |
| Benin | 25 | 1:413,424 | 29,829 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yandja (1,271) may also be a first name.
Yandja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yandja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yandja occurs most in Togo. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yandja? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yandja is the 202,554th most widely held last name globally, held by around 1 in 3,544,526 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yandja reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 88 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yandja is also the 221,247th most prevalent first name worldwide, held by 1,271 people.
The last name Yandja is most frequently held in Togo, where it is held by 1,785 people, or 1 in 4,060. Without taking into account Togo it occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 8 percent live and The DR Congo, where 4 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 Yandja
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