Goruba Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Goruba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 55 | 1:3,220,777 | 97,902 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Goruba (199) may also be a first name.
Goruba Demographics
Goruba Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Goruba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goruba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Goruba occurs most in Nigeria. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goruba? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,506,728th most widespread family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. The surname Goruba occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Goruba live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Goruba is also the 642,605th most frequent first name at a global level, held by 199 people.
Goruba is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 55 people, or 1 in 3,220,777. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Gombe, where 91 percent live, Federal Capital Territory, where 2 percent live and Kano, where 2 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 5 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent live.
Goruba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (95%) in Nigeria.
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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 Goruba
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