Gorka Surname
Approximately 3,590 people bear this surname
Gorka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,558 | 1:232,644 | 22,383 |
| Germany | 546 | 1:147,446 | 17,738 |
| India | 389 | 1:1,971,890 | 67,959 |
| France | 265 | 1:250,652 | 38,735 |
| Poland | 194 | 1:195,921 | 26,318 |
| Russia | 94 | 1:1,533,224 | 104,207 |
| England | 92 | 1:605,631 | 36,119 |
| Canada | 86 | 1:428,437 | 37,472 |
| Netherlands | 47 | 1:359,302 | 39,900 |
| Australia | 32 | 1:843,616 | 52,533 |
| Hungary | 28 | 1:350,581 | 25,143 |
| Thailand | 23 | 1:3,071,232 | 294,953 |
| Israel | 22 | 1:388,983 | 31,283 |
| Ireland | 22 | 1:214,043 | 8,362 |
| Norway | 20 | 1:257,114 | 27,149 |
| Austria | 17 | 1:500,908 | 47,931 |
| Argentina | 17 | 1:2,514,318 | 114,515 |
| Albania | 15 | 1:194,270 | 13,224 |
| Czechia | 14 | 1:759,534 | 67,321 |
| Spain | 13 | 1:3,596,310 | 69,669 |
| Malaysia | 11 | 1:2,681,293 | 102,971 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Transnistria | 7 | 1:67,814 | 9,165 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Moldova | 6 | 1:593,561 | 36,655 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Belarus | 4 | 1:2,375,265 | 105,497 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Croatia | 2 | 1:2,114,302 | 85,143 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
The alternate forms: Górka (115) are calculated separately.
Gorka (14,676) may also be a first name.
Gorka Demographics
Average Gorka Salary in
United States
$43,572 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gorka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gorka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gorka (Russian: Горка) occurs most in The United States. It may be found as: Górka. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gorka? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 126,554th most widely held family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,029,957 people. Gorka occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 47 percent of Gorka live; 46 percent live in North America and 45 percent live in Anglo-North America. Gorka is also the 47,107th most commonly held given name world-wide, borne by 14,676 people.
The surname Gorka is most commonly used in The United States, where it is held by 1,558 people, or 1 in 232,644. In The United States it is most frequent in: Nevada, where 10 percent live, Illinois, where 9 percent live and Pennsylvania, where 9 percent live. Beside The United States it occurs in 49 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 15 percent live and India, where 11 percent live.
Gorka Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is primarily Orthodox (88%) in Russia.
In The United States those holding the Gorka last name are 1.54% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 51.69% registered with the party.
The amount Gorka earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 25.74% less than the national average, earning 256,992 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 13.86% more than the national average, earning R 270,564 per year; in United States they earn 0.98% more than the national average, earning $43,572 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.9% more than the national average, earning $55,100 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gorka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gorka in the Russian language | ||
| Горка | gorka | - |
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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 Gorka
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