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
The last name Gouesse is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may also occur as a variant: Gouessé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouesse? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 200,668th most numerous last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 3,505,313 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 71 percent of Gouesse live; 71 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Mande Africa. Gouesse is also the 316,970th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 682 people.
This last name is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,900 people, or 1 in 12,143. In The Ivory Coast Gouesse is mostly found 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. Outside of The Ivory Coast it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common 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
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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 Gouesse
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