Knigs Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Knigs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Knigs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Knigs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Knigs is held by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Knigs? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 5,391,485th most commonly used surname globally It is held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The last name Knigs occurs mostly in Europe, where 85 percent of Knigs live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 85 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most widespread in Germany, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 8,945,051. In Germany it is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 67 percent reside. Excluding Germany this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 15 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 8 percent reside.
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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
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