Gogwim Surname
Approximately 670 people bear this surname
Gogwim Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 663 | 1:267,184 | 15,266 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Gogwim (69) may also be a first name.
Gogwim Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gogwim Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gogwim occurs in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Gogwim click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gogwim? popularity and diffusion
It is the 493,410th most numerous family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 10,876,934 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Gogwim live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gogwim is also the 1,171,416th most frequently held first name on earth It is held by 69 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 663 people, or 1 in 267,184. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Plateau, where 91 percent are found, Bauchi, where 3 percent are found and Kaduna, where 2 percent are found. Barring Nigeria it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Gogwim
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