Gnankan Surname

487,899th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 680 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Gnankan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Gnankan Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast6641:34,7462,304
Benin151:689,04039,432
Togo11:7,247,76812,049

Gnankan (269) may also be a first name.

Gnankan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gnankan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Gnankan occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Gnankan.

How Common Is The Last Name Gnankan? popularity and diffusion

The last name Gnankan is the 487,899th most prevalent surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 10,716,979 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 82 percent of Gnankan live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 77 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 542,091st most prevalent first name globally It is held by 269 people.

It is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 664 people, or 1 in 34,746. In The Ivory Coast Gnankan is primarily found in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 37 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 17 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 10 percent live. Barring The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 2 percent live and Togo, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gnankon86202/
Gnankam861/
Gnankoun80145/
Gnankone802/
Gnankong801/
N'Gnankon756/
Ngnankoin751/
Gnankotin751/
Gnancon711/
Gnamkam711/
Gnonkoun671/
Gnancoun671/
N'Gnancon631/
Gnancotin631/
Gnoumkam531/
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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 Gnankan
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