Gouvi Surname
Approximately 304 people bear this surname
Gouvi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 180 | 1:57,420 | 7,121 |
| Greece | 120 | 1:92,332 | 15,587 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Gouvi (28) may also be a first name.
Gouvi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouvi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gouvi is more commonly found in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouvi? popularity and diffusion
Gouvi is the 885,573rd most commonly occurring family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 23,972,191 people. Gouvi occurs mostly in Africa, where 60 percent of Gouvi are found; 60 percent are found in West Africa and 60 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,994,417th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 28 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Benin, where it is borne by 180 people, or 1 in 57,420. In Benin Gouvi is most common in: Mono Department, where 52 percent are found, Kouffo Department, where 27 percent are found and Zou Department, where 11 percent are found. Beside Benin it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 39 percent are found and France, where 0 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
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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 Gouvi
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