Goka Surname
Approximately 13,913 people bear this surname
Goka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4,067 | 1:188,607 | 11,448 |
| Ghana | 4,018 | 1:6,725 | 909 |
| Togo | 3,150 | 1:2,301 | 287 |
| Japan | 945 | 1:135,285 | 7,173 |
| Malawi | 497 | 1:34,445 | 5,098 |
| Zimbabwe | 305 | 1:50,617 | 7,714 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| United States | 129 | 1:2,809,759 | 166,838 |
| Nigeria | 123 | 1:1,440,185 | 55,603 |
| Benin | 89 | 1:116,130 | 12,862 |
| Turkey | 72 | 1:1,080,853 | 47,659 |
| DR Congo | 68 | 1:1,086,464 | 68,260 |
| Papua New Guinea | 55 | 1:148,249 | 20,445 |
| Belgium | 44 | 1:261,287 | 31,734 |
| South Africa | 27 | 1:2,006,582 | 90,678 |
| Canada | 20 | 1:1,842,280 | 119,096 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1:9,446,371 | 356,066 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| Russia | 10 | 1:14,412,306 | 394,810 |
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Niger | 4 | 1:4,798,004 | 75,547 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
The alternate forms: Göka (4) are calculated separately.
Goka (1,588) may also be a first name.
Goka Demographics
Average Goka Salary in
United States
$47,758 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Goka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Goka (Hindi: गोका, Marathi: गोका, Oriya: େଗାକା, Russian: Гока) is held by more people in India than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Göka. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goka? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 37,847th most frequently used family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 523,794 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 61 percent of Goka live; 53 percent live in West Africa and 53 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Goka is also the 194,032nd most widely held forename throughout the world. It is borne by 1,588 people.
The surname Goka is most widely held in India, where it is borne by 4,067 people, or 1 in 188,607. In India Goka is primarily concentrated in: Andhra Pradesh, where 66 percent live, Telangana, where 31 percent live and Maharashtra, where 1 percent live. Beside India this last name is found in 44 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 29 percent live and Togo, where 23 percent live.
Goka Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Goka has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Goka last name grew 1,173 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Goka Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Goka last name are 9.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Goka earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 31.47% less than the national average, earning R 162,852 per year; in United States they earn 10.68% more than the national average, earning $47,758 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.17% less than the national average, earning $45,622 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Goka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Goka in the Oriya language | ||
| େଗାକା | egaka | - |
| Goka in the Marathi language | ||
| गोका | goka | - |
| Goka in the Hindi language | ||
| गोका | goka | 97.62 |
| ग्ोका | goka | 1.59 |
| गोक | goka | 0.79 |
| Goka in the Russian language | ||
| Гока | goka | - |
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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 Goka
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