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
Guèye is more frequently found in Mali than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Guéye. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Guèye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Guèye is the 798,040th most commonly used surname internationally, held by around 1 in 20,703,255 people. The last name Guèye is primarily found in Africa, where 93 percent of Guèye reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 79 percent reside in Mande Africa.
The surname Guèye is most commonly used in Mali, where it is held by 258 people, or 1 in 65,771. Other than Mali it exists in 16 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 13 percent live and Guinea, where 5 percent live.
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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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