Gifu Surname
Approximately 266 people bear this surname
Gifu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 221 | 1:90,850 | 10,497 |
| Brazil | 20 | 1:10,703,717 | 220,519 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
The alternate forms: Gîfu (85) & Gifú (1) are calculated separately.
Gifu (23) may also be a first name.
Gifu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gifu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gifu is borne by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can occur as: Gîfu or Gifú. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gifu? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 973,426th most widespread last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 27,396,789 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 86 percent of Gifu reside; 83 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 83 percent reside in Romanian Europe. Gifu is also the 2,239,265th most frequent first name on earth, held by 23 people.
The last name Gifu is most frequent in Romania, where it is carried by 221 people, or 1 in 90,850. In Romania it is mostly concentrated in: Vaslui County, where 62 percent are found, Dolj County, where 21 percent are found and Caraș-Severin County, where 15 percent are found. Excluding Romania this last name is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 8 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 4 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
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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 Gifu
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