Gannah Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Gannah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 47 | 1:93,799 | 7,591 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 18 | 1:75,776 | 5,658 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Gannah (964) may also be a first name.
Gannah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gannah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gannah is found most frequently in Liberia. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gannah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,994,173rd most commonly used family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. The surname Gannah occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Gannah reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 53 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 259,771st most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 964 people.
The surname Gannah is most widespread in Liberia, where it is held by 47 people, or 1 in 93,799. In Liberia Gannah is primarily found in: Bong County, where 68 percent are found, Montserrado County, where 17 percent are found and Nimba County, where 13 percent are found. Other than Liberia this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Trinidad and Tobago, where 20 percent are found and Nigeria, where 19 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
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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 Gannah
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