Gaerke Surname
Approximately 180 people bear this surname
Gaerke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 165 | 1:2,196,721 | 138,143 |
| Germany | 12 | 1:6,708,788 | 223,026 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Gaerke Demographics
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Gaerke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gaerke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gaerke is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gaerke? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,272,314th most widely held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 40,486,366 people. The surname Gaerke occurs mostly in The Americas, where 93 percent of Gaerke live; 93 percent live in North America and 93 percent live in Anglo-North America.
It is most commonly held in The United States, where it is carried by 165 people, or 1 in 2,196,721. In The United States it is most numerous in: Ohio, where 69 percent are found, Illinois, where 9 percent are found and Indiana, where 7 percent are found. Barring The United States this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 7 percent are found and Canada, where 1 percent are found.
Gaerke Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Gaerke has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 2,750 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gaerke Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gaerke last name are 44.14% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 90.91% registered with the political party.
Gaerke earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.7% less than the national average, earning $41,551 USD per year.
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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 Gaerke
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