Geste Surname
Approximately 322 people bear this surname
Geste Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 163 | 1:407,501 | 59,752 |
| Latvia | 48 | 1:42,709 | 6,498 |
| Haiti | 41 | 1:260,583 | 8,998 |
| Brazil | 28 | 1:7,645,512 | 174,288 |
| Australia | 18 | 1:1,499,761 | 75,721 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Geste (33) may also be a first name.
Geste Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Geste Come From? nationality or country of origin
Geste (Russian: Гесте) is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of Geste click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Geste? popularity and diffusion
Geste is the 849,693rd most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 22,632,130 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 68 percent of Geste live; 52 percent live in Western Europe and 51 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 1,807,719th most frequent first name in the world, borne by 33 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in France, where it is borne by 163 people, or 1 in 407,501. In France it is most numerous in: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, where 63 percent are found, Grand Est, where 13 percent are found and Hauts-de-France, where 7 percent are found. Besides France it occurs in 18 countries. It also occurs in Latvia, where 15 percent are found and Haiti, where 13 percent are found.
Geste Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Geste has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Geste last name contracted 57 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Geste Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Geste in the Russian language | ||
| Гесте | geste | - |
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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 Geste
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