Gouabou Surname
Approximately 258 people bear this surname
Gouabou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 173 | 1:106,082 | 3,243 |
| Cameroon | 84 | 1:247,251 | 24,294 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Gouabou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouabou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gouabou is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouabou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 993,593rd most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 28,246,302 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gouabou live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Gouabou is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 173 people, or 1 in 106,082. In Burkina Faso Gouabou is most common in: Centre-Sud Region, where 83 percent reside and Centre Region, where 17 percent reside. Barring Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 33 percent reside and Benin, where 0 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
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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 Gouabou
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