Bürger Surname
Approximately 19,460 people bear this surname
Bürger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 17,214 | 1:4,677 | 555 |
| Austria | 1,473 | 1:5,781 | 676 |
| Poland | 291 | 1:130,614 | 19,144 |
| Czechia | 149 | 1:71,366 | 11,994 |
| Hungary | 121 | 1:81,126 | 8,137 |
| Switzerland | 66 | 1:124,438 | 12,477 |
| Sweden | 43 | 1:228,994 | 15,912 |
| Brazil | 28 | 1:7,645,512 | 174,288 |
| South Africa | 24 | 1:2,257,404 | 96,432 |
| Norway | 11 | 1:467,481 | 39,375 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Croatia | 6 | 1:704,767 | 44,411 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
The alternate forms: Burger (109,400) & Bűrger (3) are calculated separately.
Bürger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bürger Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bürger is found in Germany more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Burger or Bűrger. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bürger? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 27,627th most common family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 374,488 people. The last name Bürger occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Bürger live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.
It is most prevalent in Germany, where it is carried by 17,214 people, or 1 in 4,677. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 30 percent live, Bavaria, where 13 percent live and Saxony, where 11 percent live. Excluding Germany this last name is found in 27 countries. It is also found in Austria, where 8 percent live and Poland, where 1 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
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