Goncheva Surname
Approximately 152 people bear this surname
Goncheva Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 131 | 1:53,274 | 3,598 |
| Russia | 18 | 1:8,006,836 | 292,169 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Goncheva Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goncheva Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Goncheva (Russian: Гончева) is more frequently found in Bulgaria than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goncheva? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,422,956th most frequent surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 47,944,381 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 95 percent of Goncheva reside; 86 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 86 percent reside in South Slavic Europe.
The last name is most numerous in Bulgaria, where it is carried by 131 people, or 1 in 53,274. In Bulgaria Goncheva is most numerous in: Pazardzhik Province, where 48 percent live, Sofia City Province, where 16 percent live and Stara Zagora Province, where 5 percent live. Besides Bulgaria this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 12 percent live and Belarus, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Goncheva Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Goncheva in the Russian language | ||
| Гончева | gonceva | - |
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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 Goncheva
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