Goube Surname
Approximately 2,928 people bear this surname
Goube Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 1,695 | 1:11,323 | 837 |
| France | 634 | 1:104,768 | 15,482 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Burkina Faso | 110 | 1:166,837 | 4,025 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| Ivory Coast | 29 | 1:795,560 | 21,349 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Goubé (5) are calculated separately.
Goube (425) may also be a first name.
Goube Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goube Come From? nationality or country of origin
Goube (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﺑﻰ) is most common in Niger. It may also appear as a variant: Goubé. Click here to see other possible spellings of Goube.
How Common Is The Last Name Goube? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 150,609th most prevalent last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 2,488,916 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Goube live; 78 percent live in West Africa and 58 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 416,660th most commonly used first name internationally, borne by 425 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Niger, where it is held by 1,695 people, or 1 in 11,323. In Niger it is most frequent in: Dosso Region, where 77 percent are found, Tillabéri Region, where 9 percent are found and Niamey Capital District, where 7 percent are found. Excluding Niger this surname exists in 12 countries. It is also common in France, where 22 percent are found and Togo, where 14 percent are found.
Goube Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Goube has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Goube last name contracted 71 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Goube Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Goube in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﺑﻰ | kwby | 66.67 |
| ﻛﻮﺑﻲ | kwby | 33.33 |
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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 Goube
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