Ištok Surname
Approximately 941 people bear this surname
Ištok Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 477 | 1:11,188 | 1,392 |
| Czechia | 383 | 1:27,764 | 4,435 |
| Croatia | 71 | 1:59,558 | 11,098 |
| Serbia | 9 | 1:793,883 | 26,061 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
The alternate forms: Istok (473), Ištók (224), Iśtok (1) & Istók (241) are calculated separately.
Ištok Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ištok Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ištok occurs more in Slovakia more than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms: Istok, Ištók, Iśtok or Istók. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ištok? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 379,286th most frequently held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 7,744,470 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Ištok reside; 91 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 91 percent reside in West Slavic Europe.
The surname Ištok is most commonly held in Slovakia, where it is carried by 477 people, or 1 in 11,188. In Slovakia Ištok is mostly concentrated in: Trenčín Region, where 28 percent are found, Prešov Region, where 19 percent are found and Nitra Region, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Slovakia this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Czechia, where 41 percent are found and Croatia, where 8 percent are found.
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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 Ištok
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