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
Guéye occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms: Guèye. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Guéye? popularity and diffusion
Guéye is the 1,136,896th most commonly occurring surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 34,375,217 people. The last name Guéye is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Guéye are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
Guéye is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 197 people, or 1 in 20,786. In Mauritania Guéye is mostly found in: Brakna Region, where 47 percent live, Gorgol Region, where 42 percent live and Nouakchott-Ouest Region, where 5 percent live. Barring Mauritania this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Senegal, where 3 percent live and Canada, where 1 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 Guéye
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