Gosselk Surname
Approximately 55 people bear this surname
Gosselk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 53 | 1:1,518,971 | 91,373 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
Gosselk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gosselk Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gosselk (Russian: Госселк) is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gosselk? popularity and diffusion
Gosselk is the 2,605,694th most commonly occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. The last name Gosselk is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Gosselk are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in Germany, where it is carried by 53 people, or 1 in 1,518,971. In Germany it is most common in: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 58 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 19 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 17 percent are found. Besides Germany it occurs in one country. It is also common in Russia, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gosselk Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gosselk in the Russian language | ||
| Госселк | gosselk | - |
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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 Gosselk
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