Gbale Surname
Approximately 8,882 people bear this surname
Gbale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 4,818 | 1:4,789 | 436 |
| Cameroon | 1,952 | 1:10,640 | 1,416 |
| DR Congo | 1,881 | 1:39,277 | 4,849 |
| Nigeria | 200 | 1:885,714 | 38,609 |
| Guinea | 10 | 1:1,183,382 | 1,367 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Gbalé (14) are calculated separately.
Gbale (3,633) may also be a first name.
Gbale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gbale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gbale (Marathi: गबाळे) is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Gbalé. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbale? popularity and diffusion
It is the 57,030th most commonly held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 820,485 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 85 percent of Gbale are found; 43 percent are found in Central Africa and 40 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 117,221st most prevalent given name in the world It is held by 3,633 people.
The surname is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 4,818 people, or 1 in 4,789. In The Ivory Coast Gbale is most frequent in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 28 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 21 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast it is found in 13 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 22 percent live and The DR Congo, where 21 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gbale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gbale in the Marathi language | ||
| गबाळे | gabale | - |
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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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- 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 Gbale
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