Gacau Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Gacau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 108 | 1:427,592 | 23,179 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Gacau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gacau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gacau is found most frequently in Kenya. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Gacau.
How Common Is The Last Name Gacau? popularity and diffusion
Gacau is the 1,736,881st most frequent last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gacau reside; 97 percent reside in East Africa and 94 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most common in Kenya, where it is borne by 108 people, or 1 in 427,592. In Kenya it is mostly concentrated in: Kirinyaga County, where 56 percent are found, Muranga County, where 34 percent are found and Uasin Gishu County, where 4 percent are found. Excluding Kenya this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent are found and Malaysia, where 1 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 Gacau
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