Gbame Surname
Approximately 567 people bear this surname
Gbame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 483 | 1:47,767 | 2,974 |
| Nigeria | 42 | 1:4,217,685 | 117,088 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Liberia | 3 | 1:1,469,512 | 38,766 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
The alternate forms: Gbamé (3) are calculated separately.
Gbame (514) may also be a first name.
Gbame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gbame Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gbame is most common in The Ivory Coast. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Gbamé. Click here to see other possible spellings of Gbame.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbame? popularity and diffusion
Gbame is the 559,940th most frequent family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,852,815 people. The surname Gbame occurs mostly in Africa, where 67 percent of Gbame live; 62 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gbame is also the 372,822nd most commonly held first name on earth It is held by 514 people.
The surname Gbame is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 483 people, or 1 in 47,767. In The Ivory Coast it is most prevalent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 36 percent live, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 34 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 20 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast Gbame occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 7 percent live and The DR Congo, where 4 percent live.
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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
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