Gouya Surname
Approximately 358 people bear this surname
Gouya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 166 | 1:400,137 | 58,863 |
| Benin | 53 | 1:195,011 | 18,621 |
| Ivory Coast | 52 | 1:443,678 | 14,663 |
| Cameroon | 29 | 1:716,175 | 51,453 |
| Niger | 27 | 1:710,815 | 16,981 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| Iran | 5 | 1:15,356,505 | 213,424 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gouya (80) may also be a first name.
Gouya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gouya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gouya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻱ, Marathi: गौया) is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gouya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 788,513th most frequently occurring family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 20,356,274 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 47 percent of Gouya reside; 47 percent reside in Western Europe and 46 percent reside in Gallo-Europe. Gouya is also the 1,075,395th most commonly used forename at a global level, borne by 80 people.
It is most frequently occurring in France, where it is borne by 166 people, or 1 in 400,137. In France Gouya is most prevalent in: Brittany, where 89 percent reside, Île-de-France, where 5 percent reside and Grand Est, where 1 percent reside. Besides France this last name is found in 15 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 15 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 15 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gouya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gouya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻱ | kwy | - |
| Gouya in the Marathi language | ||
| गौया | gauya | - |
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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 Gouya
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