Gercken Surname
Approximately 662 people bear this surname
Gercken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 340 | 1:236,781 | 26,066 |
| United States | 212 | 1:1,709,712 | 113,287 |
| Australia | 64 | 1:421,808 | 33,593 |
| Israel | 22 | 1:388,983 | 31,283 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Gercken Demographics
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Gercken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gercken Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gercken occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gercken? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gercken is the 497,847th most common last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 11,008,378 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 53 percent of Gercken live; 51 percent live in Western Europe and 51 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 340 people, or 1 in 236,781. In Germany Gercken is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 27 percent live, Schleswig-Holstein, where 22 percent live and Berlin, where 16 percent live. Other than Germany Gercken is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 32 percent live and Australia, where 10 percent live.
Gercken Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gercken has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gercken last name increased 3,029 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 167 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Gercken Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Gercken are 18.61% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 65.38% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gercken earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 15.67% less than the national average, earning $36,387 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.49% more than the national average, earning $51,912 CAD 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
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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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