Kernecker Surname

1,658,108th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 120 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Austria
Highest density in:
Austria

Kernecker Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kernecker Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Austria1111:76,71611,596
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:25,109,342694,541

Kernecker Last Name Facts

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

Kernecker is borne by more people in Austria than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kernecker.

How Common Is The Last Name Kernecker? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,658,108th most widely held last name globally, held by around 1 in 60,729,549 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 93 percent of Kernecker live; 93 percent live in Western Europe and 93 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most numerous in Austria, where it is borne by 111 people, or 1 in 76,716. In Austria Kernecker is mostly found in: Upper Austria, where 86 percent live, Vienna, where 10 percent live and Lower Austria, where 4 percent live. Aside from Austria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 4 percent live and Australia, where 3 percent live.

Kernecker Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Kernecker has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kernecker surname rose 250 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Kernecker
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