Gounay Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Gounay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Gounay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gounay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gounay is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounay? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gounay is the 6,360,413th most numerous last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 44 percent of Gounay reside; 33 percent reside in West Africa and 33 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
Gounay is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 3 people, or 1 in 6,923,023. In Cameroon Gounay is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 67 percent reside and North Region, where 33 percent reside. Without taking into account Cameroon it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in India, where 33 percent reside and Algeria, where 11 percent reside.
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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 Gounay
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