Godo Surname
Approximately 11,670 people bear this surname
Godo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 2,459 | 1:7,463 | 761 |
| Ivory Coast | 1,259 | 1:18,325 | 1,401 |
| DR Congo | 1,245 | 1:59,341 | 7,086 |
| Nigeria | 1,054 | 1:168,067 | 10,446 |
| Benin | 831 | 1:12,438 | 1,688 |
| Togo | 735 | 1:9,861 | 2,446 |
| Zimbabwe | 682 | 1:22,637 | 3,411 |
| South Africa | 458 | 1:118,292 | 14,071 |
| United States | 293 | 1:1,237,061 | 87,515 |
| Peru | 278 | 1:114,331 | 6,859 |
| Spain | 250 | 1:187,008 | 13,054 |
| France | 233 | 1:285,076 | 43,747 |
| Egypt | 214 | 1:429,606 | 25,756 |
| Japan | 212 | 1:603,039 | 15,894 |
| Kenya | 164 | 1:281,585 | 18,349 |
| Pakistan | 159 | 1:1,123,546 | 13,856 |
| Indonesia | 158 | 1:837,020 | 63,356 |
| Brazil | 151 | 1:1,417,711 | 47,804 |
| Germany | 145 | 1:555,210 | 45,787 |
| Albania | 106 | 1:27,491 | 4,397 |
| Romania | 53 | 1:378,828 | 31,692 |
| Niger | 52 | 1:369,077 | 10,509 |
| Canada | 47 | 1:783,949 | 61,790 |
| Argentina | 43 | 1:994,033 | 62,207 |
| India | 34 | 1:22,560,747 | 316,052 |
| Uganda | 29 | 1:1,346,182 | 51,611 |
| England | 28 | 1:1,989,931 | 78,001 |
| Hungary | 28 | 1:350,581 | 25,143 |
| Mexico | 26 | 1:4,774,085 | 28,474 |
| Liberia | 21 | 1:209,930 | 13,691 |
| Taiwan | 20 | 1:1,172,237 | 8,044 |
| Papua New Guinea | 18 | 1:452,984 | 57,838 |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 1:6,096,641 | 11,907 |
| Andorra | 15 | 1:5,589 | 1,076 |
| Congo | 13 | 1:383,777 | 9,863 |
| Israel | 10 | 1:855,763 | 54,181 |
| Serbia | 10 | 1:714,495 | 24,752 |
| Slovakia | 10 | 1:533,645 | 60,629 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Russia | 7 | 1:20,589,008 | 462,339 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| Solomon Islands | 7 | 1:82,861 | 15,196 |
| Chile | 7 | 1:2,516,639 | 33,195 |
| Bulgaria | 7 | 1:996,986 | 34,534 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Cuba | 6 | 1:1,920,453 | 8,345 |
| Norway | 6 | 1:857,048 | 55,549 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
The alternate forms: Godó (1,565), Godô (2) & Gôdo (1) are calculated separately.
Godo (3,949) may also be a first name.
Godo Demographics
Godo Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Godo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Godo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Godo (Hindi: गोदो, Marathi: गोडो, Russian: Годо, Tibetan: སྒོ་རྡོ།) is more frequently found in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Godó, Godô or Gôdo. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Godo? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 44,505th most frequently used surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 624,468 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 76 percent of Godo are found; 52 percent are found in West Africa and 50 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 111,318th most frequently used forename internationally It is held by 3,949 people.
It is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 2,459 people, or 1 in 7,463. In Burkina Faso it is most prevalent in: Centre-Nord Region, where 78 percent are found, Centre Region, where 9 percent are found and Est Region, where 4 percent are found. Besides Burkina Faso Godo is found in 74 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 11 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 11 percent are found.
Godo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Godo has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Godo last name expanded 2,442 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Godo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Muslim (60%) in Kenya.
In The United States those bearing the Godo last name are 39.63% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 92.86% registered with the party.
The amount Godo earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 71.71% more than the national average, earning S/. 33,286 per year; in South Africa they earn 23.79% less than the national average, earning R 181,104 per year; in Colombia they earn 117.74% more than the national average, earning $49,431,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 5.12% less than the national average, earning $40,941 USD per year and in Canada they earn 16.28% more than the national average, earning $57,773 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Godo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Godo in the Hindi language | ||
| गोदो | godo | 79.07 |
| गोडो | godo | 18.6 |
| गोड़ो | goro | 2.33 |
| Godo in the Marathi language | ||
| गोडो | godo | 75 |
| गोदो | godo | 25 |
| Godo in the Tibetan language | ||
| སྒོ་རྡོ། | godo | 50 |
| སྒོ་རྡོ་ | godo | 50 |
| Godo in the Russian language | ||
| Годо | godo | - |
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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 Godo
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