Goumey Surname
Approximately 913 people bear this surname
Goumey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 874 | 1:21,959 | 1,344 |
| Ivory Coast | 28 | 1:823,973 | 21,823 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Goumey (47) may also be a first name.
Goumey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goumey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Goumey occurs most in Niger. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goumey? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 388,475th most commonly occurring family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 7,981,978 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Goumey reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Goumey is also the 1,467,136th most frequently used first name world-wide, held by 47 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Niger, where it is borne by 874 people, or 1 in 21,959. In Niger it is primarily concentrated in: Tillabéri Region, where 39 percent are found, Dosso Region, where 35 percent are found and Niamey Capital District, where 24 percent are found. Aside from Niger this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 3 percent are found and Benin, where 1 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 Goumey
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