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 is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Gognan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gognan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,537,949th most widely held surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 53,981,822 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 73 percent of Gognan are found; 73 percent are found in West Africa and 65 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It 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 mostly found in: Montagnes District, where 62 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent reside and Zanzan District, where 6 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast it exists in one country. It also occurs in Benin, where 1 percent reside.
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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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