Lefken Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Lefken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 45 | 1:1,789,010 | 101,917 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Lefken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lefken Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lefken occurs in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Lefken click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lefken? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,776,799th most frequent last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 92 percent of Lefken are found; 92 percent are found in Western Europe and 92 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name Lefken is most frequent in Germany, where it is held by 45 people, or 1 in 1,789,010. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 56 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 33 percent live and Bavaria, where 4 percent live. Without taking into account Germany Lefken is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 8 percent live.
Lefken Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Lefken has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lefken surname expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Lefken
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