Gapes Surname
Approximately 733 people bear this surname
Gapes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 542 | 1:49,808 | 6,201 |
| New Zealand | 137 | 1:33,053 | 5,740 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| Philippines | 9 | 1:11,248,691 | 221,039 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 3 | 1:1,476,622 | 29,385 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 59 | 1:413,142 | 24,536 |
Gapes (17) may also be a first name.
Gapes Demographics
Gapes Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Gapes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gapes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gapes has its highest incidence in Australia. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gapes? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gapes is the 460,648th most common surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 9,942,082 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 93 percent of Gapes live; 93 percent live in Australasia and 93 percent live in Australia and New Zealand. Gapes is also the 2,694,839th most widely held first name internationally. It is borne by 17 people.
The surname Gapes is most frequently held in Australia, where it is held by 542 people, or 1 in 49,808. In Australia Gapes is primarily found in: Victoria, where 86 percent reside, New South Wales, where 7 percent reside and Queensland, where 6 percent reside. Other than Australia Gapes exists in 10 countries. It is also common in New Zealand, where 19 percent reside and England, where 3 percent reside.
Gapes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gapes has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Gapes surname contracted 59 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Gapes Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Gapes last name is principally Anglican (67%) in Ireland.
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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 Gapes
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