Goway Surname
Approximately 117 people bear this surname
Goway Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 113 | 1:895,913 | 81,345 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Goway Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goway Come From? nationality or country of origin
Goway has its highest incidence in The Philippines. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Goway? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,683,218th most widespread family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 62,286,717 people. The surname Goway occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Goway are found; 97 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 97 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia.
The surname Goway is most commonly occurring in The Philippines, where it is held by 113 people, or 1 in 895,913. In The Philippines it is primarily concentrated in: Cordillera Administrative Region, where 58 percent reside, Ilocos, where 27 percent reside and Cagayan Valley, where 12 percent reside. Other than The Philippines Goway exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 2 percent reside and Canada, where 1 percent reside.
Goway Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Goway has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Goway surname fell 83 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
- 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 Goway
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