Falkenburg Surname

428,270th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 806 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Falkenburg Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Falkenburg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3071:262,23328,064
United States3001:1,208,19685,916
Netherlands1101:153,52022,896
Brazil391:5,489,085137,424
Australia181:1,499,76175,721
Belgium91:1,277,40587,318
England81:6,964,757184,742
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
France31:22,140,907385,998
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:4,062,562101,150
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2051:244,96920,381

Falkenburg Last Name Facts

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

The last name Falkenburg (Russian: Фалькенбург) occurs more in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Falkenburg? popularity and diffusion

The last name Falkenburg is the 428,270th most frequently used surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 9,041,620 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 55 percent of Falkenburg live; 53 percent live in Western Europe and 52 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name Falkenburg is most widespread in Germany, where it is held by 307 people, or 1 in 262,233. In Germany Falkenburg is mostly concentrated in: Rhineland-Palatinate, where 38 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 33 percent are found and Berlin, where 11 percent are found. Outside of Germany Falkenburg is found in 14 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 37 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 14 percent are found.

Falkenburg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Falkenburg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Falkenburg last name grew 146 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 133 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Falkenburg Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Falkenburg surname are 15.73% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 62.5% being registered with the political party.

Falkenburg earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.51% more than the national average, earning $44,230 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Falkenburg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Falkenburg in the Russian language
Фалькенбургfalkenburg-

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Falkenburg 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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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 Falkenburg
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