Gauku Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Gauku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 73 | 1:632,601 | 28,796 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
Gauku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gauku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gauku is carried by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gauku? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,091,648th most frequently used last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 89,969,703 people. The last name Gauku is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Gauku reside; 90 percent reside in East Africa and 90 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
The surname is most numerous in Kenya, where it is carried by 73 people, or 1 in 632,601. In Kenya it is most numerous in: Meru County, where 99 percent reside and Tharaka Nithi County, where 1 percent reside. Without taking into account Kenya it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent reside and South Africa, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Gauku
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