Gumah Surname
Approximately 4,040 people bear this surname
Gumah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 3,671 | 1:7,361 | 992 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| Israel | 85 | 1:100,678 | 11,575 |
| Nigeria | 57 | 1:3,107,768 | 95,628 |
| Liberia | 45 | 1:97,967 | 7,863 |
| Philippines | 8 | 1:12,654,778 | 228,986 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Gumah (322) may also be a first name.
Gumah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gumah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gumah occurs in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Gumah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gumah? popularity and diffusion
Gumah is the 114,440th most prevalent surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 1,803,848 people. The last name Gumah is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Gumah live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gumah is also the 488,964th most widely held first name throughout the world It is held by 322 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is held by 3,671 people, or 1 in 7,361. Barring Ghana this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 4 percent reside and Israel, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Gumah
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