Puksta Surname

1,918,812th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 94 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Latvia

Puksta Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Puksta Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States821:4,420,231233,612
Latvia61:341,67426,199
Lithuania41:758,64725,175
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Norway11:5,142,286129,201

The alternate forms: Pukšta (6) are calculated separately.

Puksta Last Name Facts

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

The last name Puksta is found most frequently in The United States. It can appear as a variant: Pukšta. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Puksta? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,918,812th most common family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 77,527,084 people. The surname Puksta is mostly found in The Americas, where 87 percent of Puksta live; 87 percent live in North America and 87 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 82 people, or 1 in 4,420,231. In The United States Puksta is most numerous in: Pennsylvania, where 33 percent reside, New Hampshire, where 17 percent reside and Texas, where 15 percent reside. Aside from The United States Puksta occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Latvia, where 6 percent reside and Lithuania, where 4 percent reside.

Puksta Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Puksta last name are 44.14% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 90.91% being registered with the party.

Puksta earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 37.34% more than the national average, earning $59,259 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
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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 Puksta
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