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 found most frequently in Chad. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gobaye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gobaye is the 604,614th most frequently used surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 14,205,743 people. The surname Gobaye occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gobaye are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 334,590th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 621 people.
This last name is most frequent in Chad, where it is held by 481 people, or 1 in 28,258. Besides Chad this surname occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs 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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