Karakök Surname
Approximately 811 people bear this surname
Karakök Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 800 | 1:97,277 | 8,556 |
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Karakok (13) are calculated separately.
Karakök Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karakök Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Karakök is more commonly found in Turkey than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms: Karakok. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Karakök? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 426,196th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 8,985,877 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 88 percent of Karakök live; 88 percent live in West Asia and 88 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
The surname Karakök is most commonly used in Turkey, where it is carried by 800 people, or 1 in 97,277. In Turkey Karakök is mostly found in: Zonguldak Province, where 44 percent are found, Istanbul Province, where 14 percent are found and Konya Province, where 8 percent are found. Barring Turkey it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 1 percent are found and Switzerland, where 0 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 Karakök
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