Punkel Surname

3,957,383rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 25 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Austria
Highest density in:
Austria

Punkel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Punkel Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Austria231:370,23639,193
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Punkel Last Name Facts

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

Punkel (Russian: Пункель) is borne by more people in Austria than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Punkel? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,957,383rd most numerous family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 291,501,837 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Punkel are found; 92 percent are found in Western Europe and 92 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widely held in Austria, where it is borne by 23 people, or 1 in 370,236. In Austria Punkel is primarily found in: Lower Austria, where 96 percent reside and Vienna, where 4 percent reside. Not including Austria Punkel exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Poland, where 4 percent reside and Russia, where 4 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Punkiel926/
Punkl9143/
Puncel8342/
Pouncel778/
Puncell772/
Punchel771/
Poenckel711/
Puncil677/
Pouncil62454/
Pongkil621/

Punkel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Punkel in the Russian language
Пункельpunkel-

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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 Punkel
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