Bandji Surname
Approximately 225 people bear this surname
Bandji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 129 | 1:161,001 | 17,453 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Benin | 17 | 1:607,977 | 36,930 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Bandji (156) may also be a first name.
Bandji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bandji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bandji is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bandji? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,092,155th most frequently used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 32,389,093 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Bandji live; 54 percent live in Central Africa and 50 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Bandji is also the 735,679th most numerous first name in the world, held by 156 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 129 people, or 1 in 161,001. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 42 percent live, Littoral Region, where 24 percent live and North Region, where 17 percent live. Apart from Cameroon Bandji exists in 7 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 30 percent live and Benin, where 8 percent live.
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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 Bandji
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