Gounde Surname
Approximately 350 people bear this surname
Gounde Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 228 | 1:45,332 | 5,763 |
| India | 77 | 1:9,961,888 | 192,972 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Gounde (99) may also be a first name.
Gounde Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gounde Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gounde (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻧﺪ) is carried by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Gounde click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounde? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 801,116th most frequent surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 20,821,560 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Gounde live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 66 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gounde is also the 951,070th most widely held first name globally It is held by 99 people.
Gounde is most widespread in Benin, where it is borne by 228 people, or 1 in 45,332. In Benin it is mostly found in: Collines Department, where 56 percent reside, Zou Department, where 30 percent reside and Borgou Department, where 11 percent reside. Outside of Benin Gounde occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in India, where 22 percent reside and Niger, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gounde Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gounde in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻧﺪ | kwnd | - |
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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 Gounde
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