Kapkan Surname

559,940th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 567 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Transnistria

Kapkan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kapkan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine3861:117,93416,745
Russia1021:1,412,97198,464
Turkey351:2,223,46973,459
Kazakhstan101:1,768,25083,699
Moldova71:508,76732,975
Transnistria71:67,8149,165
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
Belarus41:2,375,265105,497
Uzbekistan41:7,732,28643,643
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Kyrgyzstan11:5,972,65499,197
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459

Kapkan (12) may also be a first name.

Kapkan Last Name Facts

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

Kapkan (Russian: Капкан) is more commonly found in Ukraine than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kapkan click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kapkan? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 559,940th most frequently occurring last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 12,852,815 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 83 percent of Kapkan are found; 82 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 80 percent are found in East Slavic Europe. Kapkan is also the 3,306,491st most commonly held forename at a global level, held by 12 people.

The surname Kapkan is most commonly occurring in Ukraine, where it is borne by 386 people, or 1 in 117,934. In Ukraine it is primarily concentrated in: Kirovohrad Oblast, where 21 percent live, Vinnytsia Oblast, where 17 percent live and Donetsk Oblast, where 15 percent live. Without taking into account Ukraine this last name occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 18 percent live and Turkey, where 6 percent live.

Kapkan Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally Orthodox (67%) in Russia and Orthodox (83%) in Ukraine.

In The United States Kapkan are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than The US average, with 40% being registered with the political party.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kapkasen8611/
Kopkan83283/
Kepkan83143/
Kapcan83101/
Kapkon8342/
Capkan8332/
Kabkan831/
Kapkanova80150/
Kapkhon77187/
Kapkong7737/
Kopkang775/
Kapkoin772/
Koopkan771/
Kapkone771/
Kopkane771/
Kabkaan771/
Khopkhan7113/
Khapkham7111/
Khabkhan711/
Kopkam671,060/
Kobkan6727/
Capcan6723/
Kepcan6711/
Kopkanová679/
Kopcan679/
Kopkon675/
Kabkon672/
Kopkanova672/
Copkan672/
Kapcam671/
Capkanova671/
Kovkan671/
Kabkanova671/

Kapkan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kapkan in the Russian language
Капканkapkan-

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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 Kapkan
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