Gürcan Surname
Approximately 12,781 people bear this surname
Gürcan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 12,590 | 1:6,181 | 870 |
| Germany | 85 | 1:947,123 | 66,306 |
| Northern Cyprus | 33 | 1:9,667 | 2,436 |
| Sweden | 26 | 1:378,721 | 26,697 |
| Austria | 23 | 1:370,236 | 39,193 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Gurcan (206) are calculated separately.
Gürcan (12,762) may also be a first name.
Gürcan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gürcan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gürcan is borne by more people in Turkey than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Gurcan. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gürcan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 40,940th most frequently occurring last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 570,186 people. It is mostly found in Asia, where 89 percent of Gürcan live; 89 percent live in West Asia and 89 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 51,940th most widespread first name internationally It is held by 12,762 people.
It is most frequently held in Turkey, where it is held by 12,590 people, or 1 in 6,181. In Turkey Gürcan is most numerous in: Ankara Province, where 14 percent live, Istanbul Province, where 12 percent live and Manisa Province, where 8 percent live. Barring Turkey it is found in 13 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 1 percent live and Northern Cyprus, where 0 percent live.
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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
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