Gasca Surname
Approximately 34,173 people bear this surname
Gasca Surname Definition:
Apocope of Gascona, one from Gascony, an ancient province of southern France famous for its peoples’ boastfulness; hence, boastful, swaggering.
Gasca is also a Basque surname and name of villages in San Sebastian, Guipúzcoa, Navarre, Aragon, Colombia and Uruguay meaning - a place abundant in brush-wood from "-asa," suffix of abundance”-ka" and the prothetic G.
Read More About This SurnameGasca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 23,971 | 1:5,178 | 652 |
| Colombia | 4,069 | 1:11,741 | 1,166 |
| United States | 3,794 | 1:95,535 | 10,701 |
| Spain | 1,155 | 1:40,478 | 3,927 |
| Romania | 300 | 1:66,926 | 8,043 |
| Italy | 198 | 1:308,872 | 38,435 |
| Chile | 155 | 1:113,655 | 4,162 |
| Argentina | 105 | 1:407,080 | 31,114 |
| France | 101 | 1:657,651 | 84,833 |
| Venezuela | 66 | 1:457,638 | 9,047 |
| Canada | 42 | 1:877,276 | 67,671 |
| Ecuador | 33 | 1:481,995 | 10,698 |
| Peru | 21 | 1:1,513,530 | 22,524 |
| Cuba | 20 | 1:576,136 | 5,797 |
| El Salvador | 15 | 1:422,926 | 2,747 |
| Paraguay | 15 | 1:482,450 | 6,463 |
| Moldova | 15 | 1:237,425 | 21,121 |
| Philippines | 12 | 1:8,436,519 | 202,133 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Panama | 11 | 1:355,660 | 7,645 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Costa Rica | 5 | 1:956,014 | 6,058 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Honduras | 2 | 1:4,408,221 | 7,709 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
The alternate forms: Gaşca (5), Gàsca (1), Gâscă (109) & Găscă (2) are calculated separately.
Gasca (38) may also be a first name.
Gasca Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Apocope of Gascona, one from Gascony, an ancient province of southern France famous for its peoples’ boastfulness; hence, boastful, swaggering.
Gasca is also a Basque surname and name of villages in San Sebastian, Guipúzcoa, Navarre, Aragon, Colombia and Uruguay meaning - a place abundant in brush-wood from "-asa," suffix of abundance”-ka" and the prothetic G. It is a variant of the Basque surname Gaska from "aski" - place abundant in couch grass.
Gasca Demographics
Average Male Gasca Height
172.75 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Gasca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gasca Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gasca is found most frequently in Mexico. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Gaşca, Gàsca, Gâscă or Găscă. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gasca? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 16,271st most common last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 213,254 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 95 percent of Gasca are found; 81 percent are found in North America and 70 percent are found in Hispano-North America. It is also the 1,662,754th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 38 people.
It is most commonly used in Mexico, where it is held by 23,971 people, or 1 in 5,178. In Mexico it is most prevalent in: Guanajuato, where 41 percent are found, México, where 16 percent are found and Mexico City, where 12 percent are found. Excluding Mexico this surname exists in 41 countries. It is also found in Colombia, where 12 percent are found and The United States, where 11 percent are found.
Gasca Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Gasca surname are 41.25% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 94.48% registered with the political party.
The amount Gasca earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 466.94% more than the national average, earning S/. 109,901 per year; in Colombia they earn 2.72% less than the national average, earning $22,084,700 COP per year; in United States they earn 13.98% less than the national average, earning $37,117 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.76% less than the national average, earning $43,344 CAD per year.
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