Gounta Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Gounta Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 16 | 1:645,975 | 38,126 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gounta Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gounta Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gounta is found most frequently in Benin. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Gounta.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounta? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gounta is the 3,141,416th most frequently occurring surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 44 percent of Gounta reside; 44 percent reside in West Africa and 41 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most prevalent in Benin, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 645,975. In Benin Gounta is most common in: Collines Department, where 69 percent reside and Alibori Department, where 31 percent reside. Aside from Benin this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in The United Arab Emirates, where 23 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 18 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 Gounta
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