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 is held by more people in Turkey than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Gokkaya. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gökkaya? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gökkaya is the 31,682nd most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 432,726 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 89 percent of Gökkaya reside; 89 percent reside in West Asia and 89 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.
This surname is most numerous in Turkey, where it is borne by 16,638 people, or 1 in 4,677. In Turkey Gökkaya is primarily concentrated in: Istanbul Province, where 13 percent are found, Ankara Province, where 9 percent are found and Kahramanmaras Province, where 8 percent are found. Outside of Turkey this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 1 percent are found and Northern Cyprus, where 0 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 Gökkaya
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