Gouami Surname
Approximately 658 people bear this surname
Gouami Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 582 | 1:66,377 | 10,873 |
| Ivory Coast | 53 | 1:435,306 | 14,482 |
| Niger | 11 | 1:1,744,729 | 34,351 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gouami (43) may also be a first name.
Gouami Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouami Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gouami has its highest incidence in Algeria. It may also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Gouami click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouami? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 500,196th most commonly occurring last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 11,075,298 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gouami are found; 88 percent are found in North Africa and 88 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 1,545,828th most numerous first name in the world It is held by 43 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Algeria, where it is borne by 582 people, or 1 in 66,377. In Algeria Gouami is mostly concentrated in: Sétif Province, where 35 percent reside, Guelma Province, where 32 percent reside and Blida Province, where 21 percent reside. Without taking into account Algeria this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 8 percent reside and Niger, where 2 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 Gouami
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