Bjerken Surname
Approximately 329 people bear this surname
Bjerken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 233 | 1:1,555,618 | 105,142 |
| Norway | 91 | 1:56,509 | 8,100 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
The alternate forms: Bjerkén (33) are calculated separately.
Bjerken Demographics
Average Bjerken Salary in
United States
$50,823 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Bjerken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bjerken Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bjerken is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as: Bjerkén. For other possible spellings of Bjerken click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bjerken? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bjerken is the 837,371st most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 22,150,595 people. The surname Bjerken is mostly found in The Americas, where 70 percent of Bjerken live; 70 percent live in North America and 70 percent live in Anglo-North America.
Bjerken is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 233 people, or 1 in 1,555,618. In The United States Bjerken is most numerous in: Minnesota, where 59 percent live, California, where 5 percent live and Florida, where 4 percent live. Without taking into account The United States it exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Norway, where 28 percent live and Denmark, where 1 percent live.
Bjerken Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Bjerken surname are 19.94% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 73.17% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Bjerken earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 24.52% less than the national average, earning 261,232 kr per year and in United States they earn 17.78% more than the national average, earning $50,823 USD per year.
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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 Bjerken
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