Karaköy Surname
Approximately 541 people bear this surname
Karaköy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 539 | 1:144,381 | 11,528 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
The alternate forms: Karakoy (78) are calculated separately.
Karaköy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karaköy Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Karaköy occurs most in Turkey. It can be found as: Karakoy. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Karaköy? popularity and diffusion
Karaköy is the 580,291st most commonly used last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 13,470,510 people. This surname is mostly found in Asia, where 79 percent of Karaköy reside; 79 percent reside in West Asia and 79 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Turkey, where it is carried by 539 people, or 1 in 144,381. In Turkey it is most common in: Istanbul Province, where 23 percent live, Hatay Province, where 12 percent live and Ankara Province, where 11 percent live. Outside of Turkey it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 0 percent live and Germany, where 0 percent live.
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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 Karaköy
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