Kürk Surname
Approximately 721 people bear this surname
Kürk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 710 | 1:109,608 | 9,341 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Kurk (780) are calculated separately.
Kürk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kürk Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kürk is held by more people in Turkey than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Kurk. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kürk? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 466,730th most frequently held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 10,107,553 people. The surname Kürk occurs mostly in Asia, where 91 percent of Kürk live; 91 percent live in West Asia and 90 percent live in Anatolia and Highlands.
The last name is most widely held in Turkey, where it is held by 710 people, or 1 in 109,608. In Turkey it is most numerous in: Rize Province, where 21 percent live, Istanbul Province, where 12 percent live and Nevsehir Province, where 9 percent live. Beside Turkey this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Iraq, where 1 percent live and Germany, where 0 percent live.
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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 Kürk
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