Yarja Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Yarja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Yarja (36) may also be a first name.
Yarja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yarja Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yarja is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Yarja.
How Common Is The Last Name Yarja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,908,606th most prevalent family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. The surname Yarja occurs mostly in Africa, where 63 percent of Yarja live; 63 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yarja is also the 1,717,090th most frequent forename in the world, borne by 36 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 19,682,529. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Zamfara, where 89 percent are found and Sokoto, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria Yarja exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 13 percent are found and Afghanistan, where 6 percent are found.
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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 Yarja
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