Giame Surname
Approximately 543 people bear this surname
Giame Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 406 | 1:20,083 | 2,116 |
| Italy | 70 | 1:873,667 | 66,008 |
| Argentina | 36 | 1:1,187,317 | 70,591 |
| Nigeria | 28 | 1:6,326,527 | 151,186 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
The alternate forms: Giamè (4) & Giamé (1) are calculated separately.
Giame (554) may also be a first name.
Giame Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Giame Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Giame is held by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Giamè or Giamé. For other potential spellings of Giame click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Giame? popularity and diffusion
Giame is the 578,557th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 13,420,895 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 75 percent of Giame live; 75 percent live in Oceania Islands and 75 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 357,521st most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 554 people.
Giame is most frequently held in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 406 people, or 1 in 20,083. In Papua New Guinea Giame is most frequent in: Morobe, where 85 percent live, Gulf, where 6 percent live and Hela, where 4 percent live. Outside of Papua New Guinea this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Italy, where 13 percent live and Argentina, where 7 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
- 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 Giame
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