Gouana Surname
Approximately 299 people bear this surname
Gouana Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 206 | 1:100,821 | 11,910 |
| Ivory Coast | 86 | 1:268,270 | 10,467 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gouana (147) may also be a first name.
Gouana Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouana Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gouana is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouana? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 895,817th most frequently held last name globally It is held by around 1 in 24,373,063 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Gouana are found; 69 percent are found in Central Africa and 68 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Gouana is also the 760,591st most widespread first name globally, held by 147 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 206 people, or 1 in 100,821. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 35 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 32 percent are found and West Region, where 26 percent are found. Barring Cameroon this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 29 percent are found and Benin, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Gouana
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