Gelvas Surname
Approximately 604 people bear this surname
Gelvas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 602 | 1:87,943 | 8,885 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Gelvas (635) may also be a first name.
Gelvas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelvas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gelvas (Georgian: გელვას) is found most in Tanzania. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelvas? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 534,162nd most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,065,473 people. The last name Gelvas occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gelvas are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 100 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Gelvas is also the 330,269th most frequent first name worldwide. It is borne by 635 people.
The last name Gelvas is most common in Tanzania, where it is carried by 602 people, or 1 in 87,943. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Rukwa Region, where 21 percent live, Kigoma Region, where 20 percent live and Singida Region, where 15 percent live. Beside Tanzania this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Burundi, where 0 percent live and Kenya, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gelvas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gelvas in the Georgian language | ||
| გელვას | gelvas | - |
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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 Gelvas
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