Heryk Surname
Approximately 214 people bear this surname
Heryk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 165 | 1:275,895 | 35,653 |
| Poland | 42 | 1:904,970 | 68,062 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 1:3,138,668 | 142,671 |
The alternate forms: Herýk (1) are calculated separately.
Heryk (315) may also be a first name.
Heryk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heryk Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Heryk is found most frequently in Ukraine. It can appear as a variant: Herýk. Click here to see other possible spellings of Heryk.
How Common Is The Last Name Heryk? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,129,067th most frequent family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 34,053,953 people. The last name Heryk occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Heryk live; 97 percent live in Eastern Europe and 77 percent live in East Slavic Europe. Heryk is also the 494,917th most common first name internationally, held by 315 people.
The surname Heryk is most frequent in Ukraine, where it is borne by 165 people, or 1 in 275,895. In Ukraine it is mostly concentrated in: Chernivtsi Oblast, where 25 percent reside, Lviv Oblast, where 25 percent reside and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, where 15 percent reside. Excluding Ukraine this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Poland, where 20 percent reside and Germany, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Heryk
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