Pönisch Surname
Approximately 942 people bear this surname
Pönisch Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 913 | 1:88,177 | 11,113 |
| Austria | 21 | 1:405,497 | 41,758 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Ponisch (32) are calculated separately.
Pönisch Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pönisch Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pönisch occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It may appear as: Ponisch. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pönisch? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pönisch is the 378,966th most frequently used last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 7,736,248 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Pönisch live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Pönisch is most commonly held in Germany, where it is held by 913 people, or 1 in 88,177. In Germany Pönisch is mostly found in: Saxony, where 64 percent live, Bavaria, where 8 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 6 percent live. Excluding Germany Pönisch occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 2 percent live and Switzerland, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponisch | 95 | 32 | / |
| Pönitsch | 93 | 20 | / |
| Pöhnisch | 93 | 15 | / |
| Penisch | 86 | 86 | / |
| Panisch | 86 | 77 | / |
| Poenisch | 80 | 250 | / |
| Pahnisch | 80 | 18 | / |
| Panish | 77 | 448 | / |
| Ponish | 77 | 93 | / |
| Penish | 77 | 13 | / |
| Ponesch | 71 | 43 | / |
| Phanish | 71 | 8 | / |
| Pahnish | 71 | 4 | / |
| Poenish | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pannish | 71 | 1 | / |
| Ponnish | 71 | 1 | / |
| Panis | 67 | 13,723 | / |
| Penis | 67 | 894 | / |
| Ponis | 67 | 314 | / |
| Panih | 67 | 154 | / |
| Pahanish | 67 | 104 | / |
| Penih | 67 | 8 | / |
| Pöniz | 67 | 6 | / |
| Pönip | 67 | 6 | / |
| Ponih | 67 | 3 | / |
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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 Pönisch
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