Gangbe Surname
Approximately 1,748 people bear this surname
Gangbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1,700 | 1:6,080 | 818 |
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Gangbè (1) & Gangbé (1) are calculated separately.
Gangbe (83) may also be a first name.
Gangbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gangbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gangbe occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant: Gangbè or Gangbé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gangbe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 231,254th most commonly used last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 4,169,077 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gangbe live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,052,971st most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 83 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Benin, where it is borne by 1,700 people, or 1 in 6,080. In Benin Gangbe is most common in: Zou Department, where 55 percent live, Collines Department, where 17 percent live and Littoral Department, where 10 percent live. Apart from Benin this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 3 percent live and Cameroon, where 0 percent live.
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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 Gangbe
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