Guenaye Surname
Approximately 89 people bear this surname
Guenaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 54 | 1:427,245 | 14,306 |
| Mauritania | 35 | 1:116,996 | 6,922 |
Guenaye (16) may also be a first name.
Guenaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guenaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Guenaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﺎﻳﻪ) is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guenaye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,980,395th most frequently used surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 81,882,538 people. The last name Guenaye is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Guenaye live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Guenaye is also the 2,786,762nd most frequently used first name globally, held by 16 people.
This surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 427,245. In The Ivory Coast it is most common in: Montagnes District, where 94 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 2 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 2 percent live. Outside of The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 39 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Guenaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Guenaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﺎﻳﻪ | knayh | 61.54 |
| ﻛﻨﺎﻱ | knay | 30.77 |
| ﻗﻨﺎﻱ | qnay | 7.69 |
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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 Guenaye
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