Guissé Surname
Approximately 2,163 people bear this surname
Guissé Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 1,243 | 1:3,294 | 403 |
| Mali | 839 | 1:20,225 | 746 |
| France | 28 | 1:2,372,240 | 182,981 |
| Niger | 27 | 1:710,815 | 16,981 |
| Guinea | 10 | 1:1,183,382 | 1,367 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Guisse (26,631) & Guissè (2) are calculated separately.
Guissé (10) may also be a first name.
Guissé Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guissé Come From? nationality or country of origin
Guissé is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as: Guisse or Guissè. For other possible spellings of Guissé click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guissé? popularity and diffusion
The last name Guissé is the 194,280th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,369,184 people. Guissé occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Guissé are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 58 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequent forename globally, borne by 10 people.
The surname Guissé is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 1,243 people, or 1 in 3,294. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Gorgol Region, where 37 percent are found, Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 23 percent are found and Brakna Region, where 12 percent are found. Outside of Mauritania Guissé exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Mali, where 39 percent are found and France, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Guissé
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