Gobaye Surname
Approximately 513 people bear this surname
Gobaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
Gobaye (621) may also be a first name.
Gobaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gobaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gobaye is borne by more people in Chad than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gobaye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 604,614th most commonly occurring last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 14,205,743 people. The last name Gobaye is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gobaye live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Chadic Africa. Gobaye is also the 334,590th most commonly used first name worldwide, borne by 621 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Chad, where it is carried by 481 people, or 1 in 28,258. Besides Chad it occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 5 percent live and Guinea, where 0 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
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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 Gobaye
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