Falkenberg Surname

50,090th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10,254 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Denmark

Falkenberg Surname Definition:

(Swedish) One who came from Falkenberg (falcon mountain), a city in Sweden.

Falkenberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany5,3421:15,0701,979
United States1,5181:238,77422,855
Denmark1,1721:4,816430
Canada4201:87,7289,696
Australia3341:80,8259,395
Sweden3041:32,3912,643
Norway2151:23,9183,143
Poland1391:273,44433,454
Russia1071:1,346,94495,217
Brazil1021:2,098,76866,021
Argentina871:491,30436,372
South Africa611:888,15957,770
Netherlands571:296,26635,624
Finland571:96,4339,934
Belgium521:221,08928,230
France521:1,277,360130,443
Estonia501:26,4364,834
Kazakhstan281:631,51843,439
Austria251:340,61736,996
England191:2,932,529101,561
Malaysia121:2,457,85295,442
Zimbabwe111:1,403,47676,064
New Zealand111:411,66631,040
Indonesia111:12,022,654410,938
Switzerland101:821,29253,588
Thailand81:8,829,793476,604
Faroe Islands81:6,125639
Greenland71:8,054710
El Salvador61:1,057,3154,053
Wales51:618,90625,852
Spain31:15,584,012120,866
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England101:2,437,53768,340
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1171:429,22031,367

Falkenberg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(Swedish) One who came from Falkenberg (falcon mountain), a city in Sweden.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Falkenberg Last Name Facts

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

The last name Falkenberg (Russian: Фалькенберг) is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Falkenberg? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 50,090th most frequently occurring last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 710,703 people. Falkenberg is predominantly found in Europe, where 74 percent of Falkenberg live; 54 percent live in Western Europe and 53 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 5,342 people, or 1 in 15,070. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 29 percent reside, Brandenburg, where 13 percent reside and Berlin, where 9 percent reside. Apart from Germany this last name is found in 48 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 15 percent reside and Denmark, where 11 percent reside.

Falkenberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Falkenberg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Falkenberg last name rose 1,297 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 190 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Falkenberg Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Orthodox (80%) in Russia.

In The United States those bearing the Falkenberg last name are 0.82% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 54.05% registered with the party.

The amount Falkenberg earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 16.56% more than the national average, earning 403,391 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 18.41% less than the national average, earning R 193,896 per year; in United States they earn 7.81% more than the national average, earning $46,517 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.58% more than the national average, earning $55,435 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Falkenberg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Falkenberg in the Russian language
Фалькенбергfalkenberg-

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Falkenberg Reference & Research

Valkenburg FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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