Faking Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Denmark

Faking Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Faking Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727

Faking (16) may also be a first name.

Faking Last Name Facts

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

The last name Faking is found most frequently in The United States. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Faking? popularity and diffusion

It is the 6,723,624th most frequent last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. Faking is mostly found in The Americas, where 25 percent of Faking live; 25 percent live in North America and 25 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly used first name globally. It is borne by 16 people.

Faking is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 2 people, or 1 in 181,229,466. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: Pennsylvania, where 50 percent reside and Texas, where 50 percent reside. Excluding The United States it is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Bulgaria, where 13 percent reside and Denmark, where 13 percent reside.

Faking Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Facking9214/
Faiking9210/
Faecking8616/
Fascking861/
Faasking860/
Vaking8326/
Foking8317/
Fakeng8312/
Facing831/
Faqing831/
Föcking77416/
Focking77145/
Faching7745/
Phaking7711/
Fokking778/
Vajking777/
Faquing773/
Feuking772/
Vayking771/
Feakeng771/
Vaiking771/
Foeking770/
Foecking71135/
Foekking715/
Fockking713/
Faikeung711/
Facching711/
Fokeng67480/
Fekeng6749/
Faceng6715/
Fokink677/
Veking676/
Vöking671/
Voking671/

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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 Faking
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