Gonbay Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Gonbay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 46 | 1:95,838 | 7,727 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gonbay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gonbay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gonbay is carried by more people in Liberia than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gonbay.
How Common Is The Last Name Gonbay? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,843,861st most common family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. Gonbay is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Gonbay reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa.
The surname is most common in Liberia, where it is borne by 46 people, or 1 in 95,838. In Liberia Gonbay is most prevalent in: Nimba County, where 87 percent live, Montserrado County, where 11 percent live and Margibi County, where 2 percent live. Apart from Liberia this last name exists in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 2 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 Gonbay
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