Gbossa Surname
Approximately 795 people bear this surname
Gbossa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 758 | 1:13,635 | 1,858 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gbossa (34) may also be a first name.
Gbossa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gbossa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gbossa is carried by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbossa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 432,755th most commonly occurring last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 9,166,724 people. The surname Gbossa occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Gbossa live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gbossa is also the 1,775,424th most prevalent first name at a global level, borne by 34 people.
This surname is most numerous in Benin, where it is carried by 758 people, or 1 in 13,635. In Benin Gbossa is mostly found in: Ouémé Department, where 43 percent reside, Zou Department, where 41 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 8 percent reside. Besides Benin this last name occurs in 9 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent reside and Nigeria, where 1 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 Gbossa
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