Ponurko Surname

686,443rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 432 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Ukraine

Ponurko Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ponurko Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine3171:143,60520,070
Russia611:2,362,673139,353
Poland271:1,407,73183,680
Kazakhstan141:1,263,03568,752
Belarus91:1,055,67372,859
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Ponurko Last Name Facts

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

Ponurko (Russian: Понурко) occurs most in Ukraine. It can also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Ponurko? popularity and diffusion

The surname Ponurko is the 686,443rd most widely held last name in the world, held by around 1 in 16,869,319 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 92 percent of Ponurko reside; 91 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 85 percent reside in East Slavic Europe.

The last name is most frequently held in Ukraine, where it is borne by 317 people, or 1 in 143,605. In Ukraine it is mostly concentrated in: Cherkasy Oblast, where 22 percent live, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where 20 percent live and Volyn Oblast, where 10 percent live. Beside Ukraine it exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 14 percent live and Poland, where 6 percent live.

Ponurko Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Orthodox (100%) in Russia and Orthodox (80%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those holding the Ponurko surname are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than The US average, with 40% registered to vote for the political party.

Phonetically Similar Names

Ponurko Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Ponurko in the Russian language
Понуркоponurko-

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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 Ponurko
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