Wandji
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɑ̃dʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wandji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 246K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.6K
- GAGabon≈1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wandji counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #47 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Wandji | 34 |
| FR France | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 19 | Wandji | 144 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Wandji | 6 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | listed | Wandji | 48 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #7 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Wandji?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑ̃dʒi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Wandji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Wandji in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wandji.
- How common is the name Wandji?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 28 people named Wandji in 2024, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
- How common is Wandji compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Wandji is the 47th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wandji?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wandjiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wandji” — the 47th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.