Peternek Surname

1,955,159th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 91 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Croatia

Peternek Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Peternek Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany531:1,518,97191,373
Croatia151:281,90728,677
Poland101:3,800,875132,137
Argentina71:6,106,202178,634
England31:18,572,686338,250
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Bosnia and Herzegovina11:3,536,40219,532
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Peternek Last Name Facts

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

The last name Peternek occurs most in Germany. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Peternek? popularity and diffusion

Peternek is the 1,955,159th most commonly occurring last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 80,082,922 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 91 percent of Peternek live; 59 percent live in Western Europe and 59 percent live in Germanic Europe.

It is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 53 people, or 1 in 1,518,971. In Germany Peternek is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 53 percent live, Saxony-Anhalt, where 21 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 17 percent live. Apart from Germany Peternek occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Croatia, where 16 percent live and Poland, where 11 percent live.

Peternek Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Peternek has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Peternek surname declined 80 percent between 1880 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
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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 Peternek
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