Buckan Surname
Approximately 71 people bear this surname
Buckan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 47 | 1:1,712,882 | 99,068 |
| Guyana | 10 | 1:76,222 | 5,818 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
The alternate forms: Buçkan (40) are calculated separately.
Buckan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buckan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Buckan occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Buçkan. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Buckan? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,255,512th most widely held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 102,641,492 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 70 percent of Buckan reside; 66 percent reside in Western Europe and 66 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most prevalent in Germany, where it is borne by 47 people, or 1 in 1,712,882. In Germany it is most common in: Saxony, where 70 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent reside and Bavaria, where 4 percent reside. Outside of Germany this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Guyana, where 14 percent reside and The Dominican Republic, where 6 percent reside.
Buckan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Buckan has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname declined 79 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 80 percent between 1881 and 2014.
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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 Buckan
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