Gökkaya Surname
Approximately 16,841 people bear this surname
Gökkaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 16,638 | 1:4,677 | 675 |
| Germany | 98 | 1:821,484 | 59,964 |
| Northern Cyprus | 70 | 1:4,557 | 859 |
| Austria | 13 | 1:655,033 | 58,041 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
The alternate forms: Gokkaya (194) are calculated separately.
Gökkaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gökkaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gökkaya occurs most in Turkey. It can be found as a variant: Gokkaya. Click here to see other possible spellings of Gökkaya.
How Common Is The Last Name Gökkaya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 31,682nd most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 432,726 people. Gökkaya is mostly found in Asia, where 89 percent of Gökkaya reside; 89 percent reside in West Asia and 89 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.
The last name Gökkaya is most commonly held in Turkey, where it is held by 16,638 people, or 1 in 4,677. In Turkey it is most numerous in: Istanbul Province, where 13 percent reside, Ankara Province, where 9 percent reside and Kahramanmaras Province, where 8 percent reside. Apart from Turkey it is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 1 percent reside and Northern Cyprus, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Gökkaya
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