Lankers Surname

930,678th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 283 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Lankers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lankers Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1811:444,78239,627
Netherlands411:411,88242,990
South Africa181:3,009,872112,058
Canada161:2,302,849139,666
United States111:32,950,812797,015
Belgium101:1,149,66482,403
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
England11:55,718,059489,080
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Lankers Last Name Facts

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

Lankers has its highest incidence in Germany. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Lankers? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 930,678th most commonly used surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 25,751,046 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 83 percent of Lankers reside; 82 percent reside in Western Europe and 82 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

Lankers is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 181 people, or 1 in 444,782. In Germany Lankers is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 71 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 9 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account Germany Lankers occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 14 percent live and South Africa, where 6 percent live.

Lankers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Lankers has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lankers last name expanded 220 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Lankers Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Lankers earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 25.21% more than the national average, earning R 297,540 per year and in United States they earn 90.44% less than the national average, earning $4,125 USD 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
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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 Lankers
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