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
The surname Gifu is most common in Romania. It can be rendered as a variant: Gîfu or Gifú. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gifu? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 973,426th most frequently used family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 27,396,789 people. Gifu is mostly found in Europe, where 86 percent of Gifu are found; 83 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 83 percent are found in Romanian Europe. It is also the 2,239,265th most numerous first name on earth. It is borne by 23 people.
The last name Gifu is most frequently used in Romania, where it is borne by 221 people, or 1 in 90,850. In Romania Gifu is mostly found in: Vaslui County, where 62 percent are found, Dolj County, where 21 percent are found and Caraș-Severin County, where 15 percent are found. Barring Romania this surname exists 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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