Glöckle Surname

608,234th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 509 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Glöckle Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Glöckle Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany5021:160,36919,068
South Africa61:9,029,617189,736
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

The alternate forms: Glockle (33) are calculated separately.

Glöckle Last Name Facts

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

The surname Glöckle is found most in Germany. It may also be found in the variant forms: Glockle. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Glöckle? popularity and diffusion

It is the 608,234th most frequently occurring surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 14,317,379 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Glöckle are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

It is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 502 people, or 1 in 160,369. In Germany Glöckle is primarily found in: Baden-Württemberg, where 63 percent reside, Bavaria, where 32 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 2 percent reside. Outside of Germany it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 1 percent reside and Switzerland, where 0 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Glockle9533/
Glöckler932,146/
Glökler86197/
Gleckle863/
Gloeckle80101/
Glockley802/
Glocklee801/
Glockly710/
Glockli710/
Gleecklay631/
Gleklay5712/
Gleeklay5386/

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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 Glöckle
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