Gençkan Surname

1,121,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 216 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Turkey
Highest density in:
Turkey

Gençkan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Gençkan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Turkey2141:363,65222,684
Kosovo11:1,861,86914,990
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Gençkan Last Name Facts

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

Gençkan occurs more in Turkey more than any other country or territory. It may appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of Gençkan.

How Common Is The Last Name Gençkan? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,121,821st most commonly held last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. The last name Gençkan is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Gençkan are found; 93 percent are found in West Asia and 93 percent are found in Anatolia and Highlands.

The surname Gençkan is most frequently occurring in Turkey, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 363,652. In Turkey it is mostly concentrated in: Amasya Province, where 28 percent reside, Izmir Province, where 14 percent reside and Ankara Province, where 9 percent reside. Besides Turkey this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Kosovo, where 0 percent reside and Sweden, where 0 percent reside.

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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 Gençkan
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