Leineker Surname

586,691st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 533 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Argentina

Leineker Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Leineker Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil2681:798,78528,976
Argentina2521:169,61714,244
Germany91:8,945,051266,530
Ukraine41:11,380,674331,818

Leineker (13) may also be a first name.

Leineker Last Name Facts

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

The last name Leineker is most common in Brazil. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Leineker? popularity and diffusion

It is the 586,691st most commonly held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 13,672,694 people. Leineker occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Leineker are found; 98 percent are found in South America and 50 percent are found in Luso-South America. Leineker is also the 3,159,357th most common first name worldwide It is held by 13 people.

The last name is most common in Brazil, where it is borne by 268 people, or 1 in 798,785. In Brazil Leineker is most numerous in: Paraná, where 91 percent live, Santa Catarina, where 6 percent live and Pernambuco, where 1 percent live. Other than Brazil it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 47 percent live and Germany, where 2 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
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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 Leineker
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