Kökten Surname

124,538th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,660 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Turkey
Highest density in:
Turkey

Kökten Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kökten Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Turkey3,5911:21,6712,536
Belgium341:338,13737,845
Germany241:3,354,394150,996
Denmark41:1,411,17960,800
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
England11:55,718,059489,080
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297

The alternate forms: Kokten (150) are calculated separately.

Kökten (18) may also be a first name.

Kökten Last Name Facts

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

Kökten is more frequently found in Turkey than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant: Kokten. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kökten? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 124,538th most commonly occurring family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,991,133 people. This last name is predominantly found in Asia, where 85 percent of Kökten live; 85 percent live in West Asia and 85 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 2,608,198th most widespread first name world-wide. It is borne by 18 people.

This surname is most commonly held in Turkey, where it is borne by 3,591 people, or 1 in 21,671. In Turkey it is most frequent in: Istanbul Province, where 21 percent reside, Samsun Province, where 13 percent reside and Ankara Province, where 8 percent reside. Not including Turkey Kökten is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 1 percent reside and Germany, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kokten94150/
Koekten771/
Kaktienė7184/
Kaktin67105/
Koktin674/
Käktem671/
Khoktin6226/
Kokhtin628/
Kakhtin624/
Kokhtyn622/
Kocthen621/
Kogtaen621/
Keugten620/
Khokthin5724/
Kaekhtin5718/
Kaekhtyn574/
Kogtin5045/
Koctin5019/
Coktin505/
Kegtin501/

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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 Kökten
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