Gouet Surname
Approximately 5,928 people bear this surname
Gouet Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 4,238 | 1:5,444 | 498 |
| France | 1,131 | 1:58,729 | 7,882 |
| Cameroon | 401 | 1:51,793 | 6,767 |
| Chile | 116 | 1:151,866 | 5,175 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Gouët (6) are calculated separately.
Gouet (2,140) may also be a first name.
Gouet Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouet Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gouet occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It may also appear in the variant forms: Gouët. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouet? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 81,860th most prevalent last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,229,343 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 71 percent of Gouet live; 64 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 162,314th most numerous first name on earth, borne by 2,140 people.
It is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 4,238 people, or 1 in 5,444. In The Ivory Coast Gouet is most numerous in: Montagnes District, where 79 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 10 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 7 percent are found. Aside from The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in France, where 19 percent are found and Cameroon, where 7 percent are found.
Gouet Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gouet has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Gouet surname rose 500 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Gouet
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