Gamvou Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Gamvou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 46 | 1:451,501 | 37,608 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
Gamvou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gamvou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gamvou is found in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gamvou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,843,861st most commonly held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gamvou reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 57 percent reside in Chadic Africa.
Gamvou is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 46 people, or 1 in 451,501. In Cameroon Gamvou is most numerous in: Far North Region, where 54 percent reside, North Region, where 43 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 2 percent reside. Not including Cameroon it is found in one country. It also occurs in Chad, where 2 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
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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 Gamvou
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