Schelker Surname
Approximately 601 people bear this surname
Schelker Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 330 | 1:24,888 | 3,904 |
| Germany | 133 | 1:605,304 | 48,487 |
| United States | 100 | 1:3,624,589 | 201,936 |
| Romania | 30 | 1:669,262 | 46,959 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Schelker Demographics
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Schelker Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schelker Come From? nationality or country of origin
Schelker is carried by more people in Switzerland than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Schelker? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 536,164th most frequently held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 12,125,700 people. The last name Schelker is mostly found in Europe, where 83 percent of Schelker reside; 78 percent reside in Western Europe and 70 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname Schelker is most frequently occurring in Switzerland, where it is borne by 330 people, or 1 in 24,888. In Switzerland Schelker is most numerous in: Canton of Bern, where 22 percent live, Canton of Basel-Landschaft, where 21 percent live and Canton of Aargau, where 11 percent live. Beside Switzerland this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 22 percent live and The United States, where 17 percent live.
Schelker Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Schelker has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 714 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Schelker Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Schelker are 0.34% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 53.57% being registered to vote for the political party.
Schelker earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 5.54% more than the national average, earning $45,538 USD per year.
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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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