Pörksen Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Pörksen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 122 | 1:659,881 | 51,431 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Porksen (6) are calculated separately.
Pörksen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pörksen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pörksen is found most in Germany. It may be rendered as a variant: Porksen. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pörksen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,612,213th most widely held surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. Pörksen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Pörksen are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 122 people, or 1 in 659,881. In Germany it is primarily found in: Schleswig-Holstein, where 61 percent are found, Hamburg, where 15 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 11 percent are found. Barring Germany this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 1 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Pörksen
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