Gierkink Surname
Approximately 133 people bear this surname
Gierkink Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 78 | 1:216,502 | 29,188 |
| Germany | 50 | 1:1,610,109 | 95,088 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
Gierkink Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gierkink Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gierkink occurs most in The Netherlands. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Gierkink.
How Common Is The Last Name Gierkink? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gierkink is the 1,551,568th most frequently used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 54,793,578 people. The surname Gierkink is predominantly found in Europe, where 97 percent of Gierkink reside; 96 percent reside in Western Europe and 96 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
It is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 78 people, or 1 in 216,502. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Gelderland, where 87 percent reside, Overijssel, where 10 percent reside and North Holland, where 1 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 38 percent reside and Canada, where 2 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
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