Gentes Surname
Approximately 1,772 people bear this surname
Gentes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 626 | 1:106,107 | 15,696 |
| United States | 542 | 1:668,743 | 53,351 |
| Canada | 305 | 1:120,805 | 12,696 |
| Germany | 250 | 1:322,022 | 32,234 |
| New Caledonia | 16 | 1:17,264 | 4,719 |
| Spain | 13 | 1:3,596,310 | 69,669 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 50 | 1:1,004,374 | 59,252 |
The alternate forms: Gentès (13) are calculated separately.
Gentes (12) may also be a first name.
Gentes Demographics
Average Gentes Salary in
United States
$43,392 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gentes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gentes Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gentes is most common in France. It can also occur in the variant forms: Gentès. For other potential spellings of Gentes click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gentes? popularity and diffusion
It is the 228,674th most commonly used surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 4,112,611 people. The last name Gentes occurs mostly in Europe, where 50 percent of Gentes reside; 49 percent reside in Western Europe and 36 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 3,306,491st most commonly held first name at a global level, held by 12 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in France, where it is borne by 626 people, or 1 in 106,107. In France it is most numerous in: Grand Est, where 30 percent live, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 24 percent live and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 18 percent live. Without taking into account France this last name occurs in 16 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 31 percent live and Canada, where 17 percent live.
Gentes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gentes has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gentes surname increased 1,084 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gentes Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Gentes last name are 38.15% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 91.38% being registered with the political party.
The amount Gentes earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 0.56% more than the national average, earning $43,392 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.58% less than the national average, earning $43,931 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
- 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 Gentes
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