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
The surname Gban is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of Gban click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gban? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 226,928th most widely held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 4,075,809 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Gban are found; 93 percent are found in West Africa and 54 percent are found in Mande Africa. It is also the 242,913th most frequently held given name globally It is held by 1,081 people.
The last name Gban is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,379 people, or 1 in 16,730. In The Ivory Coast Gban is primarily concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 87 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 8 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 2 percent live. Aside from The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 19 percent live and Nigeria, where 3 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
- 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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