Yanja Surname
Approximately 71 people bear this surname
Yanja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 19 | 1:1,010,106 | 22,252 |
| India | 16 | 1:47,941,586 | 492,263 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Yanja (100) may also be a first name.
Yanja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yanja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yanja (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻨﺠﻪ, Marathi: यंजा) is more frequently found in Niger than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanja? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,255,512th most common last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 102,641,492 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 48 percent of Yanja are found; 28 percent are found in West Africa and 27 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 946,056th most commonly held first name on earth It is held by 100 people.
The surname is most frequent in Niger, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 1,010,106. In Niger it is most numerous in: Agadez Region, where 100 percent are found. Barring Niger this surname is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in India, where 23 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 18 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yanja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yanja in the Marathi language | ||
| यंजा | yanja | - |
| Yanja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻨﺠﻪ | ynjh | 54.55 |
| ﻳﻨﺞ | ynj | 36.36 |
| ﻳﻨﺠﻲ | ynjy | 9.09 |
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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 Yanja
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