Gläfke Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Gläfke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Glafke (47) & Gläfkë (1) are calculated separately.
Gläfke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gläfke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gläfke is more commonly found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Glafke or Gläfkë. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gläfke? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,772,636th most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 428,679,172 people. Gläfke occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of Gläfke live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 94 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name Gläfke is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 16 people, or 1 in 5,031,591. In Germany it is most frequent in: Schleswig-Holstein, where 88 percent reside and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 13 percent reside. Excluding Germany it is found in one country. It also occurs in South Africa, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glafke | 94 | 47 | / |
| Gläfkë | 94 | 1 | / |
| Gläfcke | 92 | 11 | / |
| Glefke | 83 | 107 | / |
| Glävke | 83 | 23 | / |
| Glofke | 83 | 9 | / |
| Glaefke | 77 | 87 | / |
| Glafcke | 77 | 17 | / |
| Glävcke | 77 | 13 | / |
| Gloffke | 77 | 12 | / |
| Glafkey | 77 | 0 | / |
| Glaefcke | 71 | 3 | / |
| Glebke | 67 | 101 | / |
| Glafki | 67 | 2 | / |
| Glöbke | 67 | 1 | / |
| Glavke | 67 | 0 | / |
| Glaevke | 62 | 14 | / |
| Glavkee | 62 | 2 | / |
| Glifkoy | 62 | 1 | / |
| Glaewke | 62 | 1 | / |
| Glyfkoi | 62 | 1 | / |
| Glavcke | 62 | 0 | / |
| Glaevcke | 57 | 1 | / |
| Gliwk | 55 | 5 | / |
| Gliwka | 50 | 408 | / |
| Glivka | 50 | 48 | / |
| Glyvka | 50 | 20 | / |
| Glebki | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Gläfke
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