Breke Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Breke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 22 | 1:93,184 | 13,456 |
| Brazil | 19 | 1:11,267,070 | 228,483 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 11 | 1:2,215,943 | 64,354 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 1:3,862,976 | 168,604 |
The alternate forms: Brēķe (1) are calculated separately.
Breke (15) may also be a first name.
Breke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Breke Come From? nationality or country of origin
Breke (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻚ) is found in Latvia more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Brēķe. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Breke? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,372,517th most numerous last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. The last name Breke occurs mostly in Europe, where 35 percent of Breke live; 35 percent live in Northern Europe and 34 percent live in Baltic Europe. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 15 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Latvia, where it is held by 22 people, or 1 in 93,184. In Latvia it is most prevalent in: Riga Planning Region, where 91 percent reside, Latgale, where 5 percent reside and Semigallia, where 5 percent reside. Outside of Latvia it occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 29 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 14 percent reside.
Breke Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Breke has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Breke surname fell 85 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 91 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Breke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Breke in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺑﺮﻳﻚ | abryk | - |
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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
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- 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 Breke
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