Gouessi Surname
Approximately 11 people bear this surname
Gouessi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 9 | 1:2,563,470 | 41,100 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Gouessi (676) may also be a first name.
Gouessi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouessi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gouessi is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouessi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 5,812,366th most frequently used family name in the world, held by around 1 in 662,504,174 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 27 percent of Gouessi live; 27 percent live in West Africa and 18 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 318,733rd most frequently occurring forename on earth It is held by 676 people.
The surname is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 2,563,470. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 89 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 11 percent live. Apart from The Ivory Coast it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 9 percent live and Niger, where 9 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 Gouessi
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