Bürge Surname
Approximately 1,609 people bear this surname
Bürge Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1,180 | 1:6,960 | 1,112 |
| Turkey | 302 | 1:257,687 | 17,701 |
| Germany | 46 | 1:1,750,119 | 100,509 |
| Hungary | 44 | 1:223,097 | 18,334 |
| Northern Cyprus | 18 | 1:17,723 | 4,398 |
| Austria | 9 | 1:946,159 | 70,786 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Burge (23,178) & Burgé (18) are calculated separately.
Bürge Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bürge Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bürge occurs in Switzerland more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Burge or Burgé. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bürge? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bürge is the 247,201st most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 4,529,239 people. Bürge is mostly found in Europe, where 85 percent of Bürge reside; 77 percent reside in Western Europe and 75 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Bürge is most frequently held in Switzerland, where it is carried by 1,180 people, or 1 in 6,960. In Switzerland Bürge is most prevalent in: Canton of St Gallen, where 37 percent live, Canton of Zürich, where 16 percent live and Canton of Aargau, where 13 percent live. Other than Switzerland Bürge occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Turkey, where 19 percent live and Germany, where 3 percent live.
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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 Bürge
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