Gouano Surname

1,775,494th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 107 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Gouano Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gouano Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast1051:219,7269,142
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
France11:66,422,722504,397

Gouano Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gouano Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Gouano is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Gouano.

How Common Is The Last Name Gouano? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,775,494th most widely held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 68,107,906 people. The last name Gouano occurs predominantly in Africa, where 84 percent of Gouano live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 105 people, or 1 in 219,726. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 84 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 15 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 1 percent live. Apart from The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and France, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gouvano921/
Gouwano921/
Gouwanou8622/
Goubanou861/
Govano834/
Gouono831/
Gowano831/
Ngovano77440/
Gobanou7711/
Govango772/
Gouvana771/
Gobayno771/
Gouwana771/
Gouwono771/
Gouwanga711/
Ngouwana711/
Gobana671,945/
Gowana67401/
Govana67100/
Gawono6788/
Gowono6785/
Govono6720/
Ngavounou679/
Gavano678/
Gawano674/
Ngawounou671/

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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 Gouano
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