Garyah Surname
Approximately 156 people bear this surname
Garyah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 151 | 1:29,196 | 2,821 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
Garyah (26) may also be a first name.
Garyah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Garyah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Garyah is more commonly found in Liberia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Garyah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Garyah? popularity and diffusion
Garyah is the 1,398,030th most commonly used family name at a global level, borne by around 1 in 46,715,038 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Garyah live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 2,084,397th most widely held first name throughout the world, borne by 26 people.
The surname is most widely held in Liberia, where it is borne by 151 people, or 1 in 29,196. In Liberia it is primarily concentrated in: Montserrado County, where 44 percent are found, Grand Bassa County, where 28 percent are found and Margibi County, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Liberia this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent are found and England, where 1 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 Garyah
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