Gielkens Surname
Approximately 653 people bear this surname
Gielkens Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 311 | 1:36,967 | 6,035 |
| Netherlands | 287 | 1:58,840 | 10,138 |
| Germany | 39 | 1:2,064,243 | 111,952 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Gielkens Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gielkens Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gielkens is more frequently found in Belgium than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gielkens? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gielkens is the 503,100th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 11,160,101 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Gielkens live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 95 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most commonly held in Belgium, where it is carried by 311 people, or 1 in 36,967. In Belgium it is most common in: Flemish Region, where 95 percent reside, Walloon Region, where 5 percent reside and Brussels Capital Region, where 0 percent reside. Aside from Belgium it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 44 percent reside and Germany, where 6 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 Gielkens
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