Gambaga Surname

585,091st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 535 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Togo
Highest density in:
Togo

Gambaga Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gambaga Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Togo4201:17,2575,159
Benin521:198,76218,872
Burkina Faso311:592,0037,564
Nigeria281:6,326,527151,186
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260

Gambaga (10) may also be a first name.

Gambaga Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gambaga Come From? nationality or country of origin

Gambaga (Hindi: गंबगा) has its highest incidence in Togo. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Gambaga? popularity and diffusion

Gambaga is the 585,091st most commonly held last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 13,621,581 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gambaga are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gambaga is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently held first name internationally It is held by 10 people.

The surname is most prevalent in Togo, where it is borne by 420 people, or 1 in 17,257. Barring Togo it exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 10 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 6 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Gambaga Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gambaga in the Hindi language
गंबगाgambaga-

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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 Gambaga
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