Pourcher Surname
Approximately 650 people bear this surname
Pourcher Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 625 | 1:106,276 | 15,736 |
| New Caledonia | 16 | 1:17,264 | 4,719 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Pourcher Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pourcher Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pourcher is found in France more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pourcher? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 504,985th most commonly held last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 11,211,609 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Pourcher live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
The surname is most frequently held in France, where it is carried by 625 people, or 1 in 106,276. In France it is mostly found in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 32 percent reside, Occitanie, where 15 percent reside and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 12 percent reside. Other than France it is found in 7 countries. It is also common in New Caledonia, where 2 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.
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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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