Gako Surname
Approximately 6,640 people bear this surname
Gako Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 1,621 | 1:11,840 | 860 |
| Nigeria | 1,546 | 1:114,581 | 7,590 |
| Philippines | 1,416 | 1:71,496 | 12,313 |
| Mauritania | 691 | 1:5,926 | 686 |
| Senegal | 448 | 1:32,543 | 666 |
| Burkina Faso | 287 | 1:63,945 | 2,534 |
| Cameroon | 169 | 1:122,894 | 14,008 |
| Japan | 133 | 1:961,235 | 19,718 |
| India | 103 | 1:7,447,237 | 161,200 |
| Pakistan | 62 | 1:2,881,353 | 23,780 |
| Papua New Guinea | 41 | 1:198,871 | 27,541 |
| South Africa | 30 | 1:1,805,923 | 85,708 |
| Ivory Coast | 20 | 1:1,153,562 | 26,783 |
| United States | 18 | 1:20,136,607 | 622,629 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Gako (1,383) may also be a first name.
Gako Demographics
Average Gako Salary in
United States
$52,446 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gako Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gako Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gako (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﻮ, Hindi: गको, Russian: Гако) is carried by more people in Niger than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Gako.
How Common Is The Last Name Gako? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 74,078th most frequently occurring surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,097,522 people. Gako is primarily found in Africa, where 73 percent of Gako are found; 69 percent are found in West Africa and 28 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 210,529th most commonly occurring forename internationally It is held by 1,383 people.
The last name Gako is most frequent in Niger, where it is borne by 1,621 people, or 1 in 11,840. In Niger Gako is most prevalent in: Zinder Region, where 72 percent are found, Diffa Region, where 28 percent are found and Maradi Region, where 0 percent are found. Besides Niger it occurs in 40 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 23 percent are found and The Philippines, where 21 percent are found.
Gako Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Gako earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 60.72% less than the national average, earning R 93,348 per year and in United States they earn 21.55% more than the national average, earning $52,446 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gako Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gako in the Hindi language | ||
| गको | gako | - |
| Gako in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﻮ | kakw | 97.67 |
| ﺟﺎﻛﻮ | jakw | 1.74 |
| ﻏﺎﻛﻮ | ghakw | 0.58 |
| Gako in the Russian language | ||
| Гако | gako | - |
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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 Gako
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