Polanek Surname
Approximately 283 people bear this surname
Polanek Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 201 | 1:189,098 | 25,586 |
| United States | 49 | 1:7,397,121 | 336,459 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 1:5,021,868 | 210,693 |
The alternate forms: Polánek (39) are calculated separately.
Polanek Demographics
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Polanek Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polanek Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Polanek is more commonly found in Poland than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Polánek. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Polanek? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 930,678th most frequent surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 25,751,046 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 83 percent of Polanek live; 75 percent live in Eastern Europe and 73 percent live in West Slavic Europe.
This surname is most commonly held in Poland, where it is held by 201 people, or 1 in 189,098. Excluding Poland Polanek exists in 8 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 17 percent reside and England, where 7 percent reside.
Polanek Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Polanek has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Polanek last name grew 490 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Polanek Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Polanek surname are 28.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 75% being registered with the political party.
Polanek earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.02% less than the national average, earning $36,667 USD per year.
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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 Polanek
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