Guéye Surname
Approximately 212 people bear this surname
Guéye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 197 | 1:20,786 | 1,863 |
| Senegal | 7 | 1:2,082,763 | 4,662 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Guèye (352) are calculated separately.
Guéye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guéye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Guéye is held by more people in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Guèye. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Guéye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,136,896th most commonly held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 34,375,217 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Guéye are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Mauritania, where it is held by 197 people, or 1 in 20,786. In Mauritania Guéye is primarily concentrated in: Brakna Region, where 47 percent are found, Gorgol Region, where 42 percent are found and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 5 percent are found. Aside from Mauritania this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Senegal, where 3 percent are found and Canada, 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 Guéye
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