Gankeu Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Gankeu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 38 | 1:546,554 | 42,843 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Gankeu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gankeu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gankeu is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gankeu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gankeu is the 3,141,416th most commonly occurring surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gankeu reside; 95 percent reside in Central Africa and 95 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 38 people, or 1 in 546,554. In Cameroon Gankeu is most numerous in: Littoral Region, where 79 percent are found, West Region, where 16 percent are found and Adamawa Region, where 3 percent are found. Besides Cameroon this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Gankeu
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