Gokoa Surname
Approximately 4 people bear this surname
Gokoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Gokoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gokoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gokoa is found most in Burkina Faso. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gokoa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gokoa is the 8,968,613th most frequently used surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. The last name Gokoa occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gokoa are found; 50 percent are found in Central Africa and 50 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently held in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 1 people, or 1 in 18,352,100. In Burkina Faso Gokoa is primarily found in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 100 percent live. Not including Burkina Faso it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 25 percent live and The DR Congo, where 25 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 Gokoa
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