Gognan Surname
Approximately 135 people bear this surname
Gognan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 134 | 1:172,173 | 7,731 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Gognan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gognan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gognan occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of Gognan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gognan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,537,949th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 53,981,822 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 73 percent of Gognan live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 65 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Gognan is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 134 people, or 1 in 172,173. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 62 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent live and Zanzan District, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Benin, where 1 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 Gognan
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