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 found in Niger more than any other country/territory. It may appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gako? popularity and diffusion
Gako is the 74,078th most widely held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 1,097,522 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 73 percent of Gako live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 28 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gako is also the 210,529th most numerous given name internationally. It is borne by 1,383 people.
The last name Gako is most common in Niger, where it is held by 1,621 people, or 1 in 11,840. In Niger it is mostly found in: Zinder Region, where 72 percent live, Diffa Region, where 28 percent live and Maradi Region, where 0 percent live. Besides Niger this last name occurs in 40 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 23 percent live and The Philippines, where 21 percent live.
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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