Gozey Surname
Approximately 633 people bear this surname
Gozey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 623 | 1:43,372 | 4,874 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
The alternate forms: Gözey (546) are calculated separately.
Gozey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gozey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gozey is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can occur as: Gözey. For other possible spellings of Gozey click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gozey? popularity and diffusion
Gozey is the 515,280th most commonly held surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 11,512,711 people. The last name Gozey occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gozey reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Ghana, where it is held by 623 people, or 1 in 43,372. Without taking into account Ghana this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 1 percent live and Egypt, where 1 percent live.
Gozey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gozey has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Gozey last name contracted 93 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 Gozey
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