Foinke Surname
Approximately 1,279 people bear this surname
Foinke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 1,271 | 1:9,311 | 327 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Foïnke (5) are calculated separately.
Foinke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Foinke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Foinke occurs more in Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Foïnke. For other potential spellings of Foinke click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Foinke? popularity and diffusion
Foinke is the 297,841st most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 5,697,847 people. The surname Foinke occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Foinke live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Mande Africa.
This last name is most widely held in Guinea, where it is carried by 1,271 people, or 1 in 9,311. In Guinea Foinke is most frequent in: Kindia Region, where 41 percent are found, Mamou Region, where 24 percent are found and Faranah Region, where 14 percent are found. Not including Guinea this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Switzerland, where 0 percent are found and Senegal, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Foinke
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