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
The last name Gognan is found most in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gognan? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,537,949th most commonly used surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 53,981,822 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 73 percent of Gognan reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 65 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Gognan is most frequent 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 live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 27 percent live and Zanzan District, where 6 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast Gognan 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
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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 Gognan
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