Guife Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Guife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Guife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guife Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Guife occurs most in Cameroon. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guife? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,730,171st most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Guife live; 89 percent live in Central Africa and 86 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Guife is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 26 people, or 1 in 798,810. In Cameroon Guife is primarily found in: Centre Region, where 88 percent live, East Region, where 8 percent live and Far North Region, where 4 percent live. Besides Cameroon this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 4 percent live and The United States, where 4 percent live.
Guife Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Guife has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Guife last name contracted 87 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 Guife
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