Peken Surname
Approximately 364 people bear this surname
Peken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 298 | 1:261,146 | 17,857 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Peken (84) may also be a first name.
Peken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Peken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Peken (Oriya: େପେକନ, Russian: Пекен) has its highest incidence in Turkey. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Peken? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 778,856th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 20,020,731 people. Peken occurs predominantly in Asia, where 72 percent of Peken reside; 71 percent reside in West Asia and 71 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. Peken is also the 1,046,220th most commonly held first name on earth, held by 84 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Turkey, where it is borne by 298 people, or 1 in 261,146. In Turkey it is most numerous in: Trabzon Province, where 42 percent live, Izmir Province, where 22 percent live and Istanbul Province, where 18 percent live. Apart from Turkey this surname is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent live and Nigeria, where 4 percent live.
Peken Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Peken has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Peken last name grew 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Peken Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Peken in the Oriya language | ||
| େପେକନ | epekana | - |
| Peken in the Russian language | ||
| Пекен | peken | - |
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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 Peken
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