Gelekan Surname
Approximately 99 people bear this surname
Gelekan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 98 | 1:44,985 | 4,075 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Gelekan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelekan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gelekan occurs in Liberia more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Gelekan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelekan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,860,621st most widespread surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 73,611,575 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gelekan live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Anglo-West Africa.
This surname is most frequent in Liberia, where it is held by 98 people, or 1 in 44,985. In Liberia Gelekan is mostly concentrated in: Grand Kru County, where 41 percent reside, Sinoe County, where 30 percent reside and Montserrado County, where 27 percent reside. Barring Liberia this surname is found in one country. It is also found in Tanzania, 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
- 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 Gelekan
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