Purps Surname

662,685th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 453 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Purps Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Purps Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany4331:185,92521,647
England81:6,964,757184,742
Austria71:1,216,49180,919
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Purps Last Name Facts

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

Purps is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Purps? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 662,685th most prevalent family name internationally, held by around 1 in 16,087,298 people. The last name Purps occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Purps live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most frequently used in Germany, where it is held by 433 people, or 1 in 185,925. In Germany Purps is mostly concentrated in: Brandenburg, where 43 percent live, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 12 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 10 percent live. Barring Germany Purps is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent live and Austria, where 2 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Purp896/
Porps8081/
Purbs8029/
Pourp8018/
Purvs809/
Purpe803/
Puirp801/
Phurp801/
Pourpe7335/
Purbst7326/
Purb67118/
Purv6761/
Porp6719/
Pourvsh678/
Purbh607/
Porbs604/
Phorp604/
Phurb601/
Porpz601/
Porph601/
Pourvh557/
Pourvz552/
Phorbs551/
Pourbz551/

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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 Purps
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