Gobou Surname
Approximately 591 people bear this surname
Gobou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 414 | 1:55,728 | 3,344 |
| Benin | 72 | 1:143,550 | 15,098 |
| Malaysia | 41 | 1:719,371 | 33,828 |
| Burkina Faso | 38 | 1:482,950 | 6,794 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Gobou (7,097) may also be a first name.
Gobou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gobou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gobou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﺑﻮ) occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Gobou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gobou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gobou is the 542,751st most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 12,330,873 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 60 percent of Gobou live; 60 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gobou is also the 76,886th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 7,097 people.
This surname is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 414 people, or 1 in 55,728. In The Ivory Coast Gobou is most common in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 41 percent live, Lagunes District, where 29 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 23 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast Gobou is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 12 percent live and Malaysia, where 7 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gobou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gobou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﺑﻮ | kwbw | - |
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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 Gobou
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