Gban Surname
Approximately 1,788 people bear this surname
Gban Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,379 | 1:16,730 | 1,297 |
| Liberia | 343 | 1:12,853 | 1,370 |
| Nigeria | 60 | 1:2,952,379 | 92,303 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gban (1,081) may also be a first name.
Gban Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gban Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gban is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gban? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gban is the 226,928th most commonly held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 4,075,809 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Gban live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Mande Africa. Gban is also the 242,913th most frequently used first name on earth. It is borne by 1,081 people.
This surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,379 people, or 1 in 16,730. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 87 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 8 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 2 percent are found. Outside of The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 19 percent are found and Nigeria, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Gban
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