Gnawa Surname
Approximately 831 people bear this surname
Gnawa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 811 | 1:28,448 | 1,968 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Gnawa (526) may also be a first name.
Gnawa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gnawa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gnawa is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gnawa? popularity and diffusion
Gnawa is the 418,171st most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 8,769,610 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 77 percent of Gnawa live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 74 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gnawa is also the 367,904th most commonly held forename internationally, borne by 526 people.
Gnawa is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 811 people, or 1 in 28,448. In The Ivory Coast Gnawa is mostly concentrated in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 37 percent reside, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 23 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside and Morocco, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Gnawa
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