Gorrety Surname
Approximately 83 people bear this surname
Gorrety Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 65 | 1:710,460 | 30,267 |
| Indonesia | 14 | 1:9,446,371 | 356,066 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gorrety (1,994) may also be a first name.
Gorrety Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gorrety Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gorrety is held by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gorrety? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gorrety is the 2,061,309th most frequently occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 87,801,758 people. The surname Gorrety occurs mostly in Africa, where 80 percent of Gorrety live; 78 percent live in East Africa and 77 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Gorrety is also the 169,327th most prevalent first name globally, borne by 1,994 people.
This last name is most widely held in Kenya, where it is carried by 65 people, or 1 in 710,460. In Kenya it is most common in: Siaya County, where 98 percent reside and Kakamega County, where 2 percent reside. Apart from Kenya Gorrety is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 17 percent reside and Belgium, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Gorrety
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