Yanje Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Yanje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yanje (33) may also be a first name.
Yanje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yanje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yanje (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻨﺞ) has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yanje? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,274,477th most commonly occurring surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname Yanje occurs mostly in Oceania, where 75 percent of Yanje live; 75 percent live in Oceania Islands and 75 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,807,719th most frequently held forename throughout the world. It is borne by 33 people.
Yanje is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 301,990. In Papua New Guinea Yanje is most frequent in: Western Highlands, where 41 percent reside, Southern Highlands, where 33 percent reside and National Capital District, where 26 percent reside. Outside of Papua New Guinea Yanje occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 11 percent reside and Cameroon, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yanje Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yanje in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻨﺞ | ynj | 66.67 |
| ﻳﻨﺠﻪ | ynjh | 33.33 |
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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 Yanje
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