Kenig Surname
Approximately 3,011 people bear this surname
Kenig Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 908 | 1:41,860 | 6,562 |
| Russia | 764 | 1:188,643 | 20,991 |
| United States | 321 | 1:1,129,156 | 81,316 |
| Argentina | 195 | 1:219,197 | 18,043 |
| Kazakhstan | 167 | 1:105,883 | 11,584 |
| Brazil | 101 | 1:2,119,548 | 66,584 |
| Canada | 88 | 1:418,700 | 36,754 |
| Serbia | 49 | 1:145,815 | 10,189 |
| Turkmenistan | 46 | 1:119,329 | 2,383 |
| Paraguay | 45 | 1:160,817 | 3,242 |
| Croatia | 41 | 1:103,137 | 16,264 |
| Lebanon | 38 | 1:148,344 | 7,289 |
| Slovenia | 35 | 1:71,076 | 9,906 |
| Belarus | 33 | 1:287,911 | 32,667 |
| Iraq | 31 | 1:1,129,731 | 13,630 |
| France | 24 | 1:2,767,613 | 196,808 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 22 | 1:271,484 | 24,701 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| Uruguay | 8 | 1:428,970 | 23,885 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Ecuador | 7 | 1:2,272,264 | 23,377 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Mexico | 5 | 1:24,825,241 | 58,251 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| North Macedonia | 3 | 1:700,491 | 23,754 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 34 | 1:1,477,020 | 79,266 |
The alternate forms: Kénig (1) are calculated separately.
Kenig (16) may also be a first name.
Kenig Demographics
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Kenig Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kenig Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kenig (Georgian: კენიგ, Russian: Кениг) is most common in Poland. It can be rendered as: Kénig. For other potential spellings of Kenig click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kenig? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kenig is the 147,119th most commonly used family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 2,420,308 people. The surname Kenig is primarily found in Europe, where 49 percent of Kenig live; 43 percent live in Eastern Europe and 30 percent live in West Slavic Europe. Kenig is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly used given name globally, borne by 16 people.
The last name Kenig is most common in Poland, where it is borne by 908 people, or 1 in 41,860. Besides Poland this last name is found in 40 countries. It is also common in Russia, where 25 percent are found and The United States, where 11 percent are found.
Kenig Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Kenig has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Kenig surname rose 944 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kenig Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally Orthodox (88%) in Russia, Sunni (95%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States Kenig are 25.78% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 72.55% being registered with the party.
The amount Kenig earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 156.89% more than the national average, earning R 610,464 per year; in United States they earn 5.28% less than the national average, earning $40,872 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8% more than the national average, earning $53,657 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kenig Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kenig in the Georgian language | ||
| კენიგ | kenig | - |
| Kenig in the Russian language | ||
| Кениг | kenig | - |
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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 Kenig
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