Gekiere Surname

466,730th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 721 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

Gekiere Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gekiere Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium4461:25,7774,097
France1491:445,79064,161
United States881:4,118,852221,730
Canada371:995,82774,831
Benin11:10,335,602103,742

The alternate forms: Gekière (4) & Gékière (1) are calculated separately.

Gekiere Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gekiere Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Gekiere is carried by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as: Gekière or Gékière. Click here for other possible spellings of Gekiere.

How Common Is The Last Name Gekiere? popularity and diffusion

The last name Gekiere is the 466,730th most frequently held surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 10,107,553 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 82 percent of Gekiere are found; 82 percent are found in Western Europe and 52 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most widely held in Belgium, where it is borne by 446 people, or 1 in 25,777. In Belgium Gekiere is most common in: Flemish Region, where 85 percent are found, Walloon Region, where 11 percent are found and Brussels Capital Region, where 4 percent are found. Not including Belgium this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in France, where 21 percent are found and The United States, where 12 percent are found.

Gekiere Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Gekiere last name are 25.03% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 78.26% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Gekiere earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 45.37% more than the national average, earning $62,726 USD per year and in Canada they earn 30.81% more than the national average, earning $64,992 CAD per year.

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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 Gekiere
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