Gashua Surname
Approximately 964 people bear this surname
Gashua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 958 | 1:184,909 | 11,263 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Gashua (200) may also be a first name.
Gashua Demographics
Gashua Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Gashua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gashua Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gashua is most common in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gashua? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 372,194th most widely held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 7,559,695 people. The last name Gashua occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gashua reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gashua is also the 640,739th most common forename at a global level. It is borne by 200 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 958 people, or 1 in 184,909. In Nigeria Gashua is most common in: Borno, where 66 percent are found, Imo, where 10 percent are found and Yobe, where 9 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent are found and Kenya, where 0 percent are found.
Gashua Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Gashua last name is principally Christian (91%) in Nigeria.
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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 Gashua
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