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 more frequently found in Chad than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gueme? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gueme is the 217,697th most common last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 3,870,178 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Gueme live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Chadic Africa. Gueme is also the 340,092nd most frequently used given name worldwide, borne by 604 people.
Gueme is most prevalent in Chad, where it is carried by 1,348 people, or 1 in 10,083. Excluding Chad it occurs in 19 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 17 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 6 percent are found.
Gueme Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gueme has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gueme surname 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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