Yenja Surname
Approximately 82 people bear this surname
Yenja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 77 | 1:53,180 | 3,841 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Yenja (368) may also be a first name.
Yenja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yenja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yenja (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻨﺞ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yenja? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,075,631st most commonly used family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 88,872,511 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Yenja live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Yenja is also the 453,251st most commonly occurring first name worldwide, borne by 368 people.
Yenja is most frequently occurring in Mauritania, where it is borne by 77 people, or 1 in 53,180. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 36 percent are found, Hodh Chargui Region, where 34 percent are found and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 13 percent are found. Besides Mauritania Yenja is found in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 4 percent are found and Germany, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yenja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yenja in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻨﺞ | ynj | 77.21 |
| ﻳﻨﺠﻪ | ynjh | 20.59 |
| ﻳﻨﺠﻰ | ynjy | 2.21 |
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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 Yenja
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