Gyam Surname

487,899th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 680 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Ghana

Gyam Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gyam Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3601:492,06324,644
Ghana2771:97,5489,187
India401:19,176,635286,670
England11:55,718,059489,080
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128

Gyam (258) may also be a first name.

Gyam Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gyam Come From? nationality or country of origin

Gyam (Hindi: ज्ञाम, Tibetan: མགོནམ་) is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Gyam? popularity and diffusion

The last name Gyam is the 487,899th most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 10,716,979 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Gyam reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gyam is also the 554,411th most commonly occurring given name on earth. It is borne by 258 people.

The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 360 people, or 1 in 492,063. In Nigeria it is most common in: Benue, where 41 percent reside, Kaduna, where 35 percent reside and Kano, where 9 percent reside. Outside of Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 41 percent reside and India, where 6 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Gyiam894/
Gyaham802/
Dhgyam801/
Dyam75913/
Gyom7540/
Dhyam6716/
Dyham676/
Dyame674/
Dyamd671/
Gyoum671/
D'yam671/

Gyam Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Gyam in the Hindi language
ज्ञामjnama87.5
ग्यामgyama12.5
Gyam in the Tibetan language
མགོནམ་gonam25
དགོནམ་gonam25
གེམ་gem18.75
རྒྱལམོ་gyalmo12.5
དགེནམ་genam6.25
དགེན་gen6.25
གེ་ཡམ་géyam6.25

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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 Gyam
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