Larkings Surname

966,131st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 269 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Larkings Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Larkings Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia2471:109,29412,192
England171:3,277,533109,658
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England201:1,218,76844,985
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Larkings Last Name Facts

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

Larkings has its highest incidence in Australia. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Larkings? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 966,131st most prevalent last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 27,091,249 people. The last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Larkings are found; 92 percent are found in Australasia and 92 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

The surname is most common in Australia, where it is carried by 247 people, or 1 in 109,294. In Australia Larkings is most prevalent in: New South Wales, where 72 percent live, Victoria, where 14 percent live and Queensland, where 11 percent live. Outside of Australia this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 6 percent live and Canada, where 1 percent live.

Larkings Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Larkings has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Larkings surname declined 15 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it declined 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Lorkings888/
Lurkings883/
Lorkonguse671/

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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
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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 Larkings
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