Gouessant Surname
Approximately 73 people bear this surname
Gouessant Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 72 | 1:922,538 | 106,020 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Gouessant Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouessant Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gouessant is most common in France. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouessant? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,220,661st most frequently used family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 99,829,396 people. The last name Gouessant occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Gouessant live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
The last name Gouessant is most frequently occurring in France, where it is carried by 72 people, or 1 in 922,538. In France it is most numerous in: Brittany, where 61 percent reside, Pays de la Loire, where 22 percent reside and Île-de-France, where 11 percent reside. Barring France this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in Switzerland, where 1 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
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