Gourgas Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Gourgas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 125 | 1:531,382 | 73,029 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Gourgas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gourgas Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gourgas is found most in France. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gourgas? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,544,715th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 54,384,671 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Gourgas are found; 95 percent are found in Western Europe and 94 percent are found in Gallo-Europe.
The last name is most widely held in France, where it is carried by 125 people, or 1 in 531,382. In France it is most prevalent in: Occitanie, where 81 percent live, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 11 percent live and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 6 percent live. Other than France Gourgas exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 3 percent live and The United States, where 2 percent live.
Gourgas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gourgas has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Gourgas surname declined 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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