Gökşen Surname
Approximately 4,781 people bear this surname
Gökşen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 4,775 | 1:16,298 | 1,988 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
The alternate forms: Göksen (112) & Goksen (84) are calculated separately.
Gökşen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gökşen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gökşen is found most in Turkey. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Göksen or Goksen. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gökşen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 99,086th most frequently used last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,524,272 people. Gökşen is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Gökşen live; 93 percent live in West Asia and 93 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
This last name is most prevalent in Turkey, where it is borne by 4,775 people, or 1 in 16,298. In Turkey Gökşen is most frequent in: Kayseri Province, where 11 percent reside, Gaziantep Province, where 10 percent reside and Istanbul Province, where 10 percent reside. Outside of Turkey it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent reside and The United States, 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 Gökşen
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