Gbeya Surname
Approximately 406 people bear this surname
Gbeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 287 | 1:257,420 | 24,363 |
| Benin | 77 | 1:134,229 | 14,380 |
| Ivory Coast | 18 | 1:1,281,735 | 28,562 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Gbeya (188) may also be a first name.
Gbeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gbeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gbeya is borne by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Gbeya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbeya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 718,674th most frequently used surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 17,949,620 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gbeya live; 72 percent live in Central Africa and 71 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 663,277th most commonly used first name internationally, borne by 188 people.
It is most commonly held in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 287 people, or 1 in 257,420. Not including The DR Congo it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 19 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 4 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
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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 Gbeya
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