Guèye Surname
Approximately 352 people bear this surname
Guèye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 258 | 1:65,771 | 1,556 |
| Mauritania | 44 | 1:93,065 | 5,851 |
| Guinea | 19 | 1:622,832 | 1,240 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Guéye (212) are calculated separately.
Guèye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guèye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Guèye occurs more in Mali more than any other country/territory. It may be found as: Guéye. For other potential spellings of Guèye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guèye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Guèye is the 798,040th most frequently occurring last name globally, borne by around 1 in 20,703,255 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Guèye live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Mande Africa.
The last name Guèye is most commonly used in Mali, where it is carried by 258 people, or 1 in 65,771. Besides Mali this last name is found in 16 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 13 percent are found and Guinea, where 5 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
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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 Guèye
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