Looks Surname
Approximately 644 people bear this surname
Looks Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 616 | 1:130,691 | 15,911 |
| Liberia | 15 | 1:293,902 | 16,977 |
| Brazil | 5 | 1:42,814,866 | 547,158 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Looks (58) may also be a first name.
Looks Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Looks Come From? nationality or country of origin
Looks is most common in Germany. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Looks? popularity and diffusion
Looks is the 508,499th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 11,316,065 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Looks live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe. Looks is also the 1,295,729th most frequently occurring forename on earth It is held by 58 people.
This last name is most common in Germany, where it is borne by 616 people, or 1 in 130,691. In Germany Looks is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent live, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 33 percent live and Berlin, where 8 percent live. Besides Germany this last name is found in 7 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 2 percent live and Brazil, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loocks | 91 | 29 | / |
| Hlooks | 91 | 1 | / |
| Lhooks | 91 | 1 | / |
| Lookse | 91 | 0 | / |
| Loks | 89 | 452 | / |
| Locks | 80 | 3,047 | / |
| Louks | 80 | 1,173 | / |
| Loeks | 80 | 357 | / |
| Loksz | 80 | 44 | / |
| Loksh | 80 | 27 | / |
| Lokse | 80 | 5 | / |
| Loyks | 80 | 4 | / |
| Lhoks | 80 | 3 | / |
| Loiks | 80 | 2 | / |
| Luoks | 80 | 2 | / |
| Loksø | 80 | 2 | / |
| Loogs | 80 | 1 | / |
| Loucks | 73 | 8,710 | / |
| Loockx | 73 | 532 | / |
| Lyocks | 73 | 27 | / |
| Loksch | 73 | 19 | / |
| Lotksh | 73 | 1 | / |
| Hlocks | 73 | 1 | / |
| Lokgse | 73 | 1 | / |
| Loykes | 73 | 1 | / |
| Laks | 67 | 2,897 | / |
| Luks | 67 | 2,743 | / |
| Lokś | 67 | 348 | / |
| Loox | 67 | 23 | / |
| Loksova | 67 | 7 | / |
| Logs | 67 | 5 | / |
| Lūks | 67 | 4 | / |
| Loqs | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lokz | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lõks | 67 | 1 | / |
| Loksová | 67 | 1 | / |
| Loxs | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Looks
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