Gouesse Surname
Approximately 2,079 people bear this surname
Gouesse Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,900 | 1:12,143 | 990 |
| France | 171 | 1:388,437 | 57,373 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Gouessé (3) are calculated separately.
Gouesse (682) may also be a first name.
Gouesse Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouesse Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gouesse occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as: Gouessé. Click here for other possible spellings of Gouesse.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouesse? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 200,668th most frequently used last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 3,505,313 people. The last name Gouesse occurs mostly in Africa, where 71 percent of Gouesse are found; 71 percent are found in West Africa and 54 percent are found in Mande Africa. It is also the 316,970th most frequently used forename globally, held by 682 people.
This last name is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,900 people, or 1 in 12,143. In The Ivory Coast Gouesse is most common in: Montagnes District, where 53 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 21 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 14 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in France, where 8 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Gouesse
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