Gonba Surname
Approximately 155 people bear this surname
Gonba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 69 | 1:301,001 | 28,076 |
| Nepal | 41 | 1:694,657 | 5,109 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gonba (382) may also be a first name.
Gonba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gonba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gonba is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Gonba click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gonba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,403,590th most commonly held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 47,016,425 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 48 percent of Gonba live; 30 percent live in Central Africa and 26 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 443,564th most common first name at a global level. It is borne by 382 people.
This surname is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 69 people, or 1 in 301,001. In Cameroon it is most common in: Far North Region, where 78 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 14 percent are found and North Region, where 6 percent are found. Beside Cameroon this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Nepal, where 26 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 25 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 Gonba
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