Borkey Surname
Approximately 645 people bear this surname
Borkey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| United States | 195 | 1:1,858,764 | 121,141 |
| Liberia | 97 | 1:45,449 | 4,110 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 91 | 1:551,854 | 37,927 |
The alternate forms: Börkey (16) are calculated separately.
Borkey Demographics
Average Borkey Salary in
United States
$38,487 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Borkey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Borkey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Borkey has its highest incidence in Ghana. It may also be rendered as: Börkey. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Borkey? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 507,898th most commonly held last name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 11,298,521 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 69 percent of Borkey live; 69 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in Ghana, where it is borne by 346 people, or 1 in 78,094. Other than Ghana this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 30 percent reside and Liberia, where 15 percent reside.
Borkey Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Borkey has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Borkey last name rose 214 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Borkey Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Borkey surname are 7.24% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 60.47% registered to vote for the party.
Borkey earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 10.8% less than the national average, earning $38,487 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 Borkey
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