Meikl Surname
Approximately 174 people bear this surname
Meikl Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 167 | 1:50,991 | 8,054 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 5 | 1:748,643 | 18,576 |
Meikl Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meikl Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Meikl is borne by more people in Austria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Meikl.
How Common Is The Last Name Meikl? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meikl is the 1,300,225th most frequently used surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 41,882,448 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Meikl are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in Austria, where it is carried by 167 people, or 1 in 50,991. In Austria Meikl is most frequent in: Salzburg, where 71 percent reside, Tyrol, where 24 percent reside and Upper Austria, where 5 percent reside. Besides Austria this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Denmark, where 2 percent reside and Germany, where 1 percent reside.
Meikl Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Meikl has changed over time. In Scotland the number of people bearing the Meikl last name fell 80 percent between 1881 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
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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
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