Flinks Surname

3,543,123rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 31 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Flinks Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Flinks Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany221:3,659,339158,771
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Flinks Last Name Facts

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

The last name Flinks is found most in Germany. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Flinks? popularity and diffusion

The surname Flinks is the 3,543,123rd most prevalent family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 74 percent of Flinks live; 71 percent live in Western Europe and 71 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most commonly occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 3,659,339. In Germany Flinks is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 91 percent are found, Brandenburg, where 5 percent are found and Schleswig-Holstein, where 5 percent are found. Apart from Germany this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 10 percent are found and Israel, where 6 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Flings830/
Fluings770/
Fellings7129/
Föllings7115/
Fillings7111/
Foellings674/
Flenchs621/
Flenngs620/
Völlings57176/
Vüllings57101/
Villings575/
Vellings574/
Voellings5342/
Vuellings533/
Vellingsø531/
Phillings531/

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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 Flinks
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