Gamache Surname
Approximately 12,103 people bear this surname
Gamache Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 5,972 | 1:6,170 | 899 |
| United States | 5,594 | 1:64,794 | 7,575 |
| France | 353 | 1:188,166 | 29,257 |
| Belgium | 80 | 1:143,708 | 20,372 |
| Nigeria | 43 | 1:4,119,599 | 115,187 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Burkina Faso | 8 | 1:2,294,012 | 16,398 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 273 | 1:183,951 | 16,312 |
The alternate forms: Gamaché (1) are calculated separately.
Gamache (70) may also be a first name.
Gamache Demographics
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Gamache Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gamache Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gamache is found most in Canada. It may also be found as a variant: Gamaché. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gamache? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 43,012th most commonly held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 602,127 people. The surname is predominantly found in The Americas, where 96 percent of Gamache are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 55 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Gamache is also the 1,162,016th most commonly occurring first name globally It is held by 70 people.
The surname Gamache is most commonly held in Canada, where it is held by 5,972 people, or 1 in 6,170. In Canada Gamache is primarily concentrated in: Quebec, where 82 percent reside, Ontario, where 6 percent reside and Alberta, where 5 percent reside. Outside of Canada this last name occurs in 26 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 46 percent reside and France, where 3 percent reside.
Gamache Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gamache has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gamache surname rose 2,049 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gamache Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Gamache are 5.14% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 58.37% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gamache earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 8.18% more than the national average, earning $46,680 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.52% less than the national average, earning $41,473 CAD per year.
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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 Gamache
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