Goungbe Surname
Approximately 158 people bear this surname
Goungbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 157 | 1:65,832 | 8,038 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Goungbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goungbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Goungbe occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Goungbe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goungbe? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,385,851st most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 46,123,708 people. Goungbe is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Goungbe live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 157 people, or 1 in 65,832. In Benin it is most prevalent in: Zou Department, where 78 percent live, Littoral Department, where 11 percent live and Borgou Department, where 4 percent live. Not including Benin this last name is found in one country. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Goungbe
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis