Kirchner Surname

9,422nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 60,079 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Kirchner Surname Definition:

(German) A minor official of a church who had charge of sacristy and its contents.

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Kirchner Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany38,1021:2,113181
United States13,6051:26,6423,340
Austria1,8511:4,600507
Australia1,2521:21,5622,987
Brazil1,0651:201,0097,731
South Africa8501:63,7388,014
Canada5961:61,8217,233
Hungary3451:28,4533,142
Poland3311:114,83017,191
France3251:204,37831,769
Czechia3151:33,7575,525
Switzerland1741:47,2016,376
Argentina1641:260,63121,036
England1531:364,17025,923
Netherlands1521:111,10017,774
Spain741:631,78428,875
Thailand631:1,121,244165,873
Sweden631:156,29810,904
Venezuela601:503,4019,605
Denmark591:95,6739,081
Luxembourg581:10,0091,703
Mexico531:2,342,00420,289
Italy491:1,248,09675,884
Dominican Republic391:267,5119,432
Norway381:135,32317,347
Slovakia321:166,76429,092
Belgium321:359,27039,406
Namibia261:92,6698,353
Singapore171:323,98313,856
Aruba141:7,3911,045
New Zealand131:348,33327,379
Peru91:3,531,56931,288
Croatia91:469,84536,710
United Arab Emirates71:1,308,89651,006
Qatar61:393,00055,922
Antigua and Barbuda61:16,5281,436
China51:273,464,31313,838
Chile51:3,523,29539,650
Wales41:773,63329,106
Portugal41:2,604,56016,079
Fiji41:223,5982,635
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
Japan21:63,922,14662,827
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Albania21:1,457,02824,967
Andorra21:41,9191,654
Armenia21:1,465,09016,492
Kosovo21:930,93412,188
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Cambodia21:7,743,57311,959
Indonesia21:66,124,597756,638
Ecuador21:7,952,92334,269
India21:383,532,6911,645,216
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Finland21:2,748,35172,663
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989
Bosnia and Herzegovina11:3,536,40219,532
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Solomon Islands11:580,02922,243
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Paraguay11:7,236,74616,511
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England231:1,059,79941,508
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,5421:32,5673,926

Kirchner (62) may also be a first name.

Kirchner Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(German) A minor official of a church who had charge of sacristy and its contents.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

User-submitted Reference

This is a German surname, meaning 'dweller by a church'.

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Kirchner Last Name Facts

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

The surname Kirchner (Arabic: كرشنر) occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kirchner? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 9,422nd most frequent surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 121,299 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 70 percent of Kirchner live; 68 percent live in Western Europe and 67 percent live in Germanic Europe. Kirchner is also the 1,246,114th most numerous forename at a global level. It is borne by 62 people.

This surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is held by 38,102 people, or 1 in 2,113. In Germany Kirchner is mostly found in: Bavaria, where 17 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 13 percent live and Thuringia, where 13 percent live. Aside from Germany it is found in 70 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 23 percent live and Austria, where 3 percent live.

Kirchner Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Kirchner has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kirchner last name rose 882 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 665 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Kirchner Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Kirchner surname are 13.35% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 60.12% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Kirchner earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 12.26% more than the national average, earning 388,500 kr per year; in Peru they earn 25.23% less than the national average, earning S/. 14,494 per year; in South Africa they earn 9.59% more than the national average, earning R 260,424 per year; in United States they earn 5.99% more than the national average, earning $45,733 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.61% more than the national average, earning $53,464 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Kirchner Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kirchner in the Arabic language
كرشنرkrshnr-

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