Gouele Surname
Approximately 636 people bear this surname
Gouele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 542 | 1:42,567 | 2,740 |
| Congo | 57 | 1:87,528 | 7,379 |
| Benin | 21 | 1:492,172 | 32,947 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
The alternate forms: Gouélé (1) are calculated separately.
Gouele (320) may also be a first name.
Gouele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gouele is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Gouélé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouele? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 513,430th most prevalent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 11,458,406 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Gouele are found; 73 percent are found in West Africa and 61 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 490,671st most common given name worldwide. It is borne by 320 people.
The surname Gouele is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 542 people, or 1 in 42,567. In The Ivory Coast Gouele is most prevalent in: Montagnes District, where 56 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 17 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 13 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The Congo, where 9 percent live and Benin, where 3 percent live.
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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 Gouele
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