Gueme Surname
Approximately 1,883 people bear this surname
Gueme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 1,348 | 1:10,083 | 1,325 |
| Cameroon | 319 | 1:65,107 | 8,257 |
| Burkina Faso | 122 | 1:150,427 | 3,837 |
| Niger | 29 | 1:661,794 | 16,082 |
| Benin | 23 | 1:449,374 | 31,324 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Gueme (604) may also be a first name.
Gueme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gueme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gueme is found in Chad more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Gueme.
How Common Is The Last Name Gueme? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 217,697th most frequent surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 3,870,178 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Gueme are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 88 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 340,092nd most frequently used first name world-wide. It is borne by 604 people.
It is most prevalent in Chad, where it is held by 1,348 people, or 1 in 10,083. Besides Chad this surname is found in 19 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 17 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 6 percent are found.
Gueme Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gueme has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name fell 80 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 Gueme
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