Gürek Surname
Approximately 824 people bear this surname
Gürek Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 811 | 1:95,957 | 8,480 |
| Germany | 12 | 1:6,708,788 | 223,026 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Gurek (91) are calculated separately.
Gürek Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gürek Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gürek is found in Turkey more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Gurek. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gürek? popularity and diffusion
It is the 420,906th most commonly held family name globally, borne by around 1 in 8,844,109 people. The surname Gürek occurs mostly in Asia, where 59 percent of Gürek live; 59 percent live in West Asia and 59 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
This surname is most commonly used in Turkey, where it is carried by 811 people, or 1 in 95,957. In Turkey Gürek is primarily found in: Istanbul Province, where 44 percent live, Sakarya Province, where 16 percent live and Trabzon Province, where 9 percent live. Excluding Turkey Gürek exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Gürek
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