Goigoi Surname
Approximately 679 people bear this surname
Goigoi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 192 | 1:275,738 | 21,701 |
| Cameroon | 147 | 1:141,286 | 15,748 |
| Nigeria | 105 | 1:1,687,074 | 62,154 |
| DR Congo | 103 | 1:717,277 | 51,618 |
| Papua New Guinea | 68 | 1:119,908 | 16,326 |
| India | 50 | 1:15,341,308 | 250,737 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
The alternate forms: Goïgoï (1) are calculated separately.
Goigoi (1,774) may also be a first name.
Goigoi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goigoi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Goigoi is more frequently found in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant: Goïgoï. Click here for other potential spellings of Goigoi.
How Common Is The Last Name Goigoi? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 488,458th most frequently used last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 10,732,763 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 83 percent of Goigoi are found; 38 percent are found in West Africa and 28 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Goigoi is also the 181,645th most widely held first name at a global level, held by 1,774 people.
This last name is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is held by 192 people, or 1 in 275,738. In Tanzania Goigoi is primarily found in: Manyara Region, where 56 percent live, Pwani Region, where 33 percent live and Kigoma Region, where 5 percent live. Excluding Tanzania it occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 22 percent live and Nigeria, where 15 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 Goigoi
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