Doerks Surname
Approximately 140 people bear this surname
Doerks Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 129 | 1:624,073 | 49,483 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
Doerks Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Doerks Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Doerks is most common in Germany. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Doerks? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,497,948th most commonly occurring family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 52,053,899 people. Doerks occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Doerks reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 92 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
It is most commonly occurring in Germany, where it is held by 129 people, or 1 in 624,073. In Germany Doerks is most common in: Brandenburg, where 29 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 20 percent reside and Schleswig-Holstein, where 16 percent reside. Without taking into account Germany it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 7 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doercks | 92 | 14 | / |
| Derks | 91 | 11,931 | / |
| Doerk | 91 | 387 | / |
| Dorks | 91 | 83 | / |
| Dierks | 83 | 7,998 | / |
| Dercks | 83 | 1,038 | / |
| Doerck | 83 | 21 | / |
| Duerks | 83 | 19 | / |
| Deirks | 83 | 3 | / |
| Deerks | 83 | 1 | / |
| Dyerks | 83 | 1 | / |
| Doerke | 83 | 0 | / |
| Daerks | 83 | 0 | / |
| Dearks | 83 | 0 | / |
| Diercks | 77 | 4,229 | / |
| Deircks | 77 | 0 | / |
| Derkx | 73 | 710 | / |
| Durks | 73 | 414 | / |
| Darks | 73 | 333 | / |
| Dörks | 73 | 51 | / |
| Dürks | 73 | 20 | / |
| Dorgs | 73 | 1 | / |
| Derkz | 73 | 0 | / |
| Derckx | 67 | 364 | / |
| Dierkx | 67 | 248 | / |
| Darksh | 67 | 58 | / |
| Durksz | 67 | 54 | / |
| Durcks | 67 | 10 | / |
| Darcks | 67 | 7 | / |
| Dorchs | 67 | 6 | / |
| Dourgs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Diergs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Dorcsh | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Doerks
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