Gakoye Surname
Approximately 174 people bear this surname
Gakoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 168 | 1:114,238 | 4,517 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Gakoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gakoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gakoye occurs more in Niger more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gakoye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,300,225th most commonly held surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 41,882,448 people. The surname Gakoye occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gakoye live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Chadic Africa.
Gakoye is most prevalent in Niger, where it is borne by 168 people, or 1 in 114,238. In Niger it is most prevalent in: Tillabéri Region, where 59 percent reside, Dosso Region, where 26 percent reside and Niamey Capital District, where 13 percent reside. Other than Niger it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Mali, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Gakoye
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