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 found most in The DR Congo. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbeya? popularity and diffusion
Gbeya is the 718,674th most widespread last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 17,949,620 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gbeya reside; 72 percent reside in Central Africa and 71 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Gbeya is also the 663,277th most commonly held first name in the world. It is borne by 188 people.
The last name is most widely held in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 287 people, or 1 in 257,420. Aside from The DR Congo this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 19 percent live and The Ivory Coast, 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gbeya
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