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 carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Guenaye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guenaye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,980,395th most widely held last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 81,882,538 people. Guenaye occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Guenaye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 60 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,786,762nd most frequent first name worldwide, held by 16 people.
The last name is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 54 people, or 1 in 427,245. In The Ivory Coast Guenaye is most numerous in: Montagnes District, where 94 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 2 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 2 percent live. Beside The Ivory Coast it is found 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
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- 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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