Gounte Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Gounte Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
Gounte Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gounte Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gounte occurs most in Cameroon. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounte? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,876,555th most frequent family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 158,424,911 people. The last name Gounte occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Gounte are found; 87 percent are found in Central Africa and 57 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 41 people, or 1 in 506,563. In Cameroon Gounte is most common in: East Region, where 61 percent are found, Adamawa Region, where 34 percent are found and Centre Region, where 2 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in India, where 7 percent are found and Niger, where 4 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
- 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 Gounte
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