Gasa Surname
Approximately 17,440 people bear this surname
Gasa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 13,692 | 1:3,957 | 520 |
| Zimbabwe | 907 | 1:17,021 | 2,489 |
| Nigeria | 695 | 1:254,882 | 14,691 |
| Indonesia | 505 | 1:261,880 | 23,736 |
| Philippines | 248 | 1:408,219 | 51,950 |
| Spain | 196 | 1:238,531 | 15,520 |
| Papua New Guinea | 146 | 1:55,847 | 7,111 |
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| India | 127 | 1:6,039,885 | 141,381 |
| Albania | 121 | 1:24,083 | 4,003 |
| United States | 96 | 1:3,775,614 | 208,022 |
| Iran | 81 | 1:947,932 | 44,636 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| France | 52 | 1:1,277,360 | 130,443 |
| Argentina | 48 | 1:890,488 | 57,418 |
| England | 45 | 1:1,238,179 | 56,985 |
| Germany | 42 | 1:1,916,797 | 106,618 |
| Solomon Islands | 42 | 1:13,810 | 2,567 |
| Malaysia | 30 | 1:983,141 | 44,226 |
| Taiwan | 18 | 1:1,302,486 | 8,817 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Mexico | 17 | 1:7,301,541 | 34,591 |
| Peru | 17 | 1:1,869,654 | 24,503 |
| Uganda | 13 | 1:3,003,021 | 81,551 |
| Russia | 12 | 1:12,010,255 | 361,204 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Latvia | 5 | 1:410,009 | 28,210 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Panama | 5 | 1:782,452 | 11,059 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Gaša (19) are calculated separately.
Gasa (1,510) may also be a first name.
Gasa Demographics
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Gasa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gasa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gasa (Arabic: غيسي, Hindi: गसा, Marathi: गासा, Oriya: ଗସା, Russian: Гаса, Tibetan: དགའ་ས་) is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Gaša. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gasa? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 30,614th most commonly held last name on earth, held by around 1 in 417,864 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Gasa reside; 84 percent reside in Southern Africa and 84 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 199,962nd most numerous first name on earth It is held by 1,510 people.
The surname is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is borne by 13,692 people, or 1 in 3,957. In South Africa Gasa is most common in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 76 percent are found, Gauteng, where 10 percent are found and Eastern Cape, where 8 percent are found. Barring South Africa it occurs in 56 countries. It is also found in Zimbabwe, where 5 percent are found and Nigeria, where 4 percent are found.
Gasa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Gasa surname is chiefly Muslim (83%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Gasa surname are 13.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 60% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gasa earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 39.64% less than the national average, earning R 143,448 per year and in United States they earn 22.24% more than the national average, earning $52,745 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gasa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gasa in the Tibetan language | ||
| དགའ་ས་ | gasa | - |
| Gasa in the Marathi language | ||
| गासा | gasa | 76.47 |
| गसा | gasa | 23.53 |
| Gasa in the Hindi language | ||
| गसा | gasa | 66.67 |
| गासा | gasa | 33.33 |
| Gasa in the Oriya language | ||
| ଗସା | gasa | 56.76 |
| ଗାସା | gasa | 33.78 |
| ଗାସ | gasa | 4.05 |
| ଗଷା | gasa | 2.7 |
| େଗାସା | egasa | 1.35 |
| ଗଶା | gasa | 1.35 |
| Gasa in the Russian language | ||
| Гаса | gasa | - |
| Gasa in the Arabic language | ||
| غيسي | ghysy | - |
| غيسا | ghysa | - |
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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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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gasa
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