Gueime Surname
Approximately 1,167 people bear this surname
Gueime Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 587 | 1:35,382 | 4,755 |
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Gueime (1,021) may also be a first name.
Gueime Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gueime Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gueime is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gueime? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 320,306th most numerous surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 6,244,684 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Gueime live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Chadic Africa. Gueime is also the 251,260th most commonly held forename globally It is held by 1,021 people.
Gueime is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 587 people, or 1 in 35,382. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 92 percent live, Centre Region, where 4 percent live and North Region, where 1 percent live. Beside Cameroon it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 50 percent live and India, where 0 percent live.
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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 Gueime
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