Gouem Surname
Approximately 8,085 people bear this surname
Gouem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 7,959 | 1:2,306 | 321 |
| Ivory Coast | 80 | 1:288,390 | 10,979 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
The alternate forms: Gouém (1) are calculated separately.
Gouem (16) may also be a first name.
Gouem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouem Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gouem is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It can appear as: Gouém. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouem? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gouem is the 62,127th most frequently held family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 901,366 people. Gouem occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gouem live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 70 percent live in Mande Africa. Gouem is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly used first name throughout the world, borne by 16 people.
The surname is most numerous in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 7,959 people, or 1 in 2,306. In Burkina Faso it is mostly found in: Centre-Est Region, where 70 percent reside, Centre Region, where 13 percent reside and Centre-Sud Region, where 13 percent reside. Barring Burkina Faso this surname is found in 14 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent reside and Cameroon, where 0 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 Gouem
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