Gbowe Surname
Approximately 169 people bear this surname
Gbowe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 96 | 1:1,845,237 | 66,383 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
Gbowe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gbowe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gbowe occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Gbowe.
How Common Is The Last Name Gbowe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,328,442nd most frequently used surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 43,121,573 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gbowe are found; 59 percent are found in West Africa and 59 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 96 people, or 1 in 1,845,237. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Ondo, where 82 percent live, Ekiti, where 7 percent live and Lagos, where 7 percent live. Beside Nigeria this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 24 percent live and Cameroon, where 17 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 Gbowe
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