Cakste Surname
Approximately 234 people bear this surname
Cakste Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 217 | 1:9,447 | 1,394 |
| Sweden | 11 | 1:895,160 | 66,831 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
The alternate forms: Čakste (12) are calculated separately.
Cakste Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cakste Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cakste is found most in Latvia. It can also be rendered as a variant: Čakste. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cakste? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,064,392nd most widespread surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 31,143,359 people. The last name Cakste occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Cakste are found; 98 percent are found in Northern Europe and 93 percent are found in Baltic Europe.
Cakste is most frequently held in Latvia, where it is carried by 217 people, or 1 in 9,447. In Latvia Cakste is most prevalent in: Riga Planning Region, where 87 percent reside, Semigallia, where 11 percent reside and Kurzeme Planning Region, where 1 percent reside. Other than Latvia this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Sweden, where 5 percent reside and The United States, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Cakste
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