Kersken Surname
Approximately 460 people bear this surname
Kersken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 454 | 1:177,325 | 20,795 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Kersken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kersken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kersken is held by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kersken? popularity and diffusion
Kersken is the 655,080th most frequently used family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 15,842,491 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Kersken live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 454 people, or 1 in 177,325. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 85 percent reside, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 4 percent reside and Lower Saxony, where 3 percent reside. Not including Germany this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 0 percent reside.
Kersken Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kersken has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name contracted 20 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kersken
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