Pöpken Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Pöpken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 143 | 1:562,975 | 46,225 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
The alternate forms: Popken (1,692) are calculated separately.
Pöpken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pöpken Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pöpken is found most in Germany. It can also be found as a variant: Popken. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pöpken? popularity and diffusion
Pöpken is the 1,415,499th most frequently held surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 47,631,019 people. Pöpken is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Pöpken reside; 97 percent reside in Western Europe and 97 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Pöpken is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 143 people, or 1 in 562,975. In Germany Pöpken is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 86 percent reside, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 7 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 6 percent reside. Beside Germany Pöpken occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Switzerland, where 4 percent reside and Finland, where 2 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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