Guessan Surname
Approximately 5,700 people bear this surname
Guessan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 5,653 | 1:4,081 | 390 |
| France | 20 | 1:3,321,136 | 213,627 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Guessan (787) may also be a first name.
Guessan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guessan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Guessan (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻴﺴﺎﻥ) occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Guessan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guessan? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 84,719th most prevalent surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 1,278,517 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Guessan live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 75 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 292,224th most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 787 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 5,653 people, or 1 in 4,081. In The Ivory Coast Guessan is most numerous in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 76 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 15 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 3 percent live. Barring The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 19 countries. It is also common in France, where 0 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Guessan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Guessan in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻴﺴﺎﻥ | kysan | - |
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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 Guessan
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