Gernais Surname
Approximately 30 people bear this surname
Gernais Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 29 | 1:2,290,439 | 180,028 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
Gernais Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gernais Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gernais occurs most in France. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Gernais.
How Common Is The Last Name Gernais? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,602,217th most common family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 242,918,197 people. The surname Gernais is predominantly found in Europe, where 97 percent of Gernais are found; 97 percent are found in Western Europe and 97 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.
The last name Gernais is most frequently occurring in France, where it is borne by 29 people, or 1 in 2,290,439. In France Gernais is most numerous in: Pays de la Loire, where 83 percent are found, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 3 percent are found and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, where 3 percent are found. Aside from France this surname exists in one country. It is also common in Haiti, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Gernais
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