Brenkus Surname

493,936th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 669 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Slovakia

Brenkus Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Brenkus Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2891:1,254,18388,515
Poland1391:273,44433,454
Czechia1201:88,61214,778
Slovakia951:56,17310,849
Hungary191:516,64632,401
England21:27,859,030389,889
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

The alternate forms: Brenkuš (73) & Brenkuś (1) are calculated separately.

Brenkus Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Brenkus Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Brenkus occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as: Brenkuš or Brenkuś. For other potential spellings of Brenkus click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Brenkus? popularity and diffusion

It is the 493,936th most widely held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 10,893,193 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 57 percent of Brenkus are found; 56 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 53 percent are found in West Slavic Europe.

It is most frequently used in The United States, where it is borne by 289 people, or 1 in 1,254,183. In The United States Brenkus is most frequent in: Ohio, where 14 percent are found, Nevada, where 13 percent are found and New York, where 12 percent are found. Excluding The United States this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Poland, where 21 percent are found and Czechia, where 18 percent are found.

Brenkus Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Brenkus surname are 25.02% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 71.79% registered to vote for the political party.

Brenkus earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 0.35% less than the national average, earning $42,999 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
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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 Brenkus
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