Gakeu Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Gakeu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
Gakeu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gakeu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gakeu is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gakeu.
How Common Is The Last Name Gakeu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gakeu is the 4,307,654th most commonly used last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 347,025,996 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gakeu reside; 76 percent reside in Central Africa and 76 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
It is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 1,298,067. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 94 percent live and West Region, where 6 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Kenya, where 24 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
- 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 Gakeu
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