Gelve Surname
Approximately 179 people bear this surname
Gelve Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 117 | 1:665,140 | 34,634 |
| Argentina | 25 | 1:1,709,737 | 90,467 |
| Venezuela | 15 | 1:2,013,605 | 24,362 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Gelvé (1) are calculated separately.
Gelve (21) may also be a first name.
Gelve Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelve Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gelve is most common in Turkey. It may appear in the variant forms: Gelvé. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelve? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,276,805th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 40,712,547 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 65 percent of Gelve live; 63 percent live in West Asia and 62 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 2,368,944th most frequently held first name at a global level, borne by 21 people.
The last name Gelve is most commonly held in Turkey, where it is borne by 117 people, or 1 in 665,140. In Turkey Gelve is mostly concentrated in: Kayseri Province, where 64 percent live, Izmir Province, where 12 percent live and Agri Province, where 9 percent live. Excluding Turkey Gelve is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 14 percent live and Venezuela, where 8 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
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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
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