Mawkes Surname

1,967,751st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 90 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
New Zealand
Highest density in:
New Zealand

Mawkes Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Mawkes Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
New Zealand491:92,41512,718
Australia281:964,13257,058
England131:4,286,005132,302
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:4,062,562101,150

Mawkes Last Name Facts

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

The surname Mawkes is found in New Zealand more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Mawkes? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,967,751st most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 80,972,732 people. The last name Mawkes occurs mostly in Oceania, where 86 percent of Mawkes are found; 86 percent are found in Australasia and 86 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

The last name is most frequently held in New Zealand, where it is borne by 49 people, or 1 in 92,415. In New Zealand Mawkes is mostly concentrated in: Bay of Plenty Region, where 49 percent are found, Auckland Region, where 41 percent are found and Nelson, where 8 percent are found. Not including New Zealand this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 31 percent are found and England, where 14 percent are found.

Mawkes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Mawkes has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the surname grew 217 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

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SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
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Matvke673/
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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 Mawkes
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