Gnissan Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Gnissan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 45 | 1:512,694 | 16,131 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Gnissan (455) may also be a first name.
Gnissan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gnissan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gnissan occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Gnissan.
How Common Is The Last Name Gnissan? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,876,555th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 158,424,911 people. The last name Gnissan occurs mostly in Africa, where 54 percent of Gnissan live; 54 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 400,634th most frequently used first name world-wide It is held by 455 people.
Gnissan is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 45 people, or 1 in 512,694. In The Ivory Coast Gnissan is most frequent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 47 percent live, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 31 percent live and Vallée du Bandama District, where 13 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast Gnissan is found in one country. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 2 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 Gnissan
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