Herk Surname
Approximately 783 people bear this surname
Herk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 183 | 1:92,280 | 15,166 |
| United States | 174 | 1:2,083,097 | 132,570 |
| Austria | 163 | 1:52,242 | 8,220 |
| Hungary | 95 | 1:103,329 | 9,926 |
| Turkey | 37 | 1:2,103,282 | 71,268 |
| New Zealand | 20 | 1:226,416 | 21,878 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| Argentina | 15 | 1:2,849,561 | 122,961 |
| Canada | 14 | 1:2,631,828 | 153,264 |
| Ukraine | 11 | 1:4,138,427 | 206,719 |
| Serbia | 11 | 1:649,541 | 22,440 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 26 | 1:1,931,488 | 97,398 |
Herk (178) may also be a first name.
Herk Demographics
Average Herk Salary in
United States
$47,627 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Herk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Herk Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Herk is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Herk? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 437,968th most commonly occurring last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 9,307,211 people. The last name Herk is predominantly found in Europe, where 65 percent of Herk are found; 47 percent are found in Western Europe and 47 percent are found in Germanic Europe. It is also the 683,417th most widely held forename world-wide It is held by 178 people.
It is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 92,280. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: South Holland, where 55 percent are found, North Brabant, where 33 percent are found and North Holland, where 5 percent are found. Barring The Netherlands Herk occurs in 32 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 22 percent are found and Austria, where 21 percent are found.
Herk Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Herk has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Herk surname expanded 669 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 33 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Herk Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Herk surname are 6.34% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 59.57% being registered with the political party.
The amount Herk earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 10.38% more than the national average, earning $47,627 USD per year and in Canada they earn 31.96% less than the national average, earning $33,804 CAD per year.
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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 Herk
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