Kortje Surname
Approximately 865 people bear this surname
Kortje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 747 | 1:72,527 | 9,038 |
| United States | 85 | 1:4,264,223 | 227,504 |
| Canada | 27 | 1:1,364,652 | 95,501 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Kortjé (67), Körtje (66) & Kortjë (1) are calculated separately.
Kortje Demographics
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Kortje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kortje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kortje is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Kortjé, Körtje or Kortjë. Click here for further possible spellings of Kortje.
How Common Is The Last Name Kortje? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kortje is the 405,063rd most commonly held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 8,424,909 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 86 percent of Kortje live; 86 percent live in Southern Africa and 86 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently used in South Africa, where it is carried by 747 people, or 1 in 72,527. In South Africa Kortje is most common in: Western Cape, where 86 percent live, Gauteng, where 7 percent live and Eastern Cape, where 3 percent live. Aside from South Africa Kortje exists in 7 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 10 percent live and Canada, where 3 percent live.
Kortje Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Kortje are 24.06% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 70.83% being registered with the political party.
The amount Kortje earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 14.1% less than the national average, earning R 204,132 per year; in United States they earn 3.05% less than the national average, earning $41,831 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.06% more than the national average, earning $54,681 CAD per year.
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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 Kortje
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