Dovchenko Surname

1,088,856th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 226 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Ukraine

Dovchenko Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dovchenko Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine1691:269,36534,930
Russia501:2,882,461158,532
Israel41:2,139,40895,907
Belarus21:4,750,530139,516
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010

Dovchenko Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Dovchenko Come From? nationality or country of origin

Dovchenko (Russian: Довченко) occurs in Ukraine more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Dovchenko? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,088,856th most widely held last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 32,245,778 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 92 percent of Dovchenko are found; 92 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 92 percent are found in East Slavic Europe.

The surname is most frequently used in Ukraine, where it is carried by 169 people, or 1 in 269,365. In Ukraine it is mostly concentrated in: Kharkiv Oblast, where 17 percent live, Donetsk Oblast, where 14 percent live and Cherkasy Oblast, where 13 percent live. Excluding Ukraine this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 22 percent live and Israel, where 2 percent live.

Dovchenko Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Dovchenko surname is predominantly Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those holding the Dovchenko last name are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than the national average, with 40% registered with the political party.

Phonetically Similar Names

Dovchenko Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dovchenko in the Russian language
Довченкоdovcenko-

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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 Dovchenko
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