Gonye Surname
Approximately 3,084 people bear this surname
Gonye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 2,942 | 1:5,248 | 526 |
| United States | 60 | 1:6,040,982 | 292,121 |
| South Africa | 27 | 1:2,006,582 | 90,678 |
| Canada | 11 | 1:3,349,599 | 180,238 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Ivory Coast | 4 | 1:5,767,808 | 55,416 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Gonye (60) may also be a first name.
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Gonye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gonye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gonye is found most frequently in Zimbabwe. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gonye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 144,116th most frequent last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 2,363,017 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Gonye are found; 96 percent are found in Southern Africa and 96 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,270,172nd most widely held first name on earth. It is borne by 60 people.
The last name Gonye is most widely held in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 2,942 people, or 1 in 5,248. In Zimbabwe Gonye is most numerous in: Manicaland Province, where 18 percent live, Masvingo Province, where 18 percent live and Midlands Province, where 17 percent live. Barring Zimbabwe this surname is found in 23 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent live and South Africa, where 1 percent live.
Gonye Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gonye has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Gonye last name expanded 1,200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gonye Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Gonye last name are 0.62% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 53.85% registered with the political party.
The amount Gonye earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 58.12% less than the national average, earning R 99,528 per year; in United States they earn 32.35% more than the national average, earning $57,108 USD per year and in Canada they earn 35.27% less than the national average, earning $32,158 CAD per year.
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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 Gonye
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