Hofknecht Surname

1,374,607th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 160 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Hofknecht Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Hofknecht Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1001:805,05559,076
United States581:6,249,292299,206
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

The alternate forms: Hofknécht (1) are calculated separately.

Hofknecht Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Hofknecht Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Hofknecht is found most frequently in Germany. It may occur as: Hofknécht. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Hofknecht? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,374,607th most commonly used last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 45,547,162 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 63 percent of Hofknecht live; 63 percent live in Western Europe and 63 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname Hofknecht is most commonly held in Germany, where it is held by 100 people, or 1 in 805,055. In Germany it is mostly found in: Bavaria, where 89 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 10 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 1 percent live. Without taking into account Germany this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 36 percent live and Kenya, where 1 percent live.

Hofknecht Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Hofknecht has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Hofknecht surname grew 1,450 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Hofknecht Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Hofknecht last name are 23.69% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 76.92% registered with the political party.

Hofknecht earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.11% less than the national average, earning $41,808 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Hofknécht961/
Hoffknecht95195/
Hofknect942/
Hofknecth891/

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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 Hofknecht
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