Gacko Surname
Approximately 1,402 people bear this surname
Gacko Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 644 | 1:22,639 | 556 |
| Mali | 516 | 1:32,886 | 1,020 |
| Mauritania | 133 | 1:30,788 | 2,540 |
| Slovakia | 20 | 1:266,822 | 40,422 |
| Poland | 18 | 1:2,111,597 | 101,748 |
| Philippines | 14 | 1:7,231,302 | 192,576 |
| Czechia | 14 | 1:759,534 | 67,321 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Guinea | 9 | 1:1,314,869 | 1,461 |
| Burkina Faso | 7 | 1:2,621,729 | 17,588 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Gačko (16) are calculated separately.
Gacko Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gacko Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gacko (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﻮ) occurs most in Senegal. It can also appear as a variant: Gačko. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gacko? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gacko is the 276,555th most prevalent family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 5,197,964 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Gacko reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 55 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Senegal, where it is carried by 644 people, or 1 in 22,639. In Senegal it is most numerous in: Matam Region, where 58 percent are found, Dakar Region, where 19 percent are found and Saint Louis Region, where 13 percent are found. Aside from Senegal this last name occurs in 19 countries. It is also common in Mali, where 37 percent are found and Mauritania, where 9 percent are found.
Gacko Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gacko has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name rose 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gacko Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gacko in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﻮ | kakw | 97.22 |
| ﻏﺎﻛﻮ | ghakw | 2.78 |
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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 Gacko
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