Yanjan Surname
Approximately 124 people bear this surname
Yanjan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 75 | 1:379,746 | 3,901 |
| India | 40 | 1:19,176,635 | 286,670 |
| Bhutan | 7 | 1:88,006 | 800 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Yanjan (61) may also be a first name.
Yanjan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yanjan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yanjan (Hindi: यंजन, Tibetan: ཡོན་ཇཱན།) is held by more people in Nepal than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanjan? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yanjan is the 1,620,164th most widely held surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 58,770,532 people. Yanjan is primarily found in Asia, where 99 percent of Yanjan live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 93 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,257,960th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 61 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Nepal, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 379,746. In Nepal Yanjan is primarily found in: Mechi, where 36 percent are found, Janakpur, where 25 percent are found and Koshi, where 20 percent are found. Beside Nepal Yanjan occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in India, where 32 percent are found and Bhutan, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yanjan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yanjan in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཡོན་ཇཱན། | yönjen | - |
| Yanjan in the Hindi language | ||
| यंजन | yanjana | - |
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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 Yanjan
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