Sorbs Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Sorbs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 82 | 1:810,033 | 97,301 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
Sorbs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sorbs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sorbs is found in France more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sorbs? popularity and diffusion
Sorbs is the 1,994,173rd most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Sorbs reside; 94 percent reside in Western Europe and 93 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
It is most commonly used in France, where it is borne by 82 people, or 1 in 810,033. In France Sorbs is primarily concentrated in: Occitanie, where 95 percent are found, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 4 percent are found and Île-de-France, where 1 percent are found. Besides France this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent are found and Germany, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourbs | 91 | 1 | / |
| Shorbs | 91 | 1 | / |
| Sorb | 89 | 5 | / |
| Shorb | 80 | 1,138 | / |
| Sourb | 80 | 46 | / |
| Sorbh | 80 | 29 | / |
| Corbs | 80 | 7 | / |
| Serbs | 80 | 4 | / |
| Sorps | 80 | 4 | / |
| Ssorb | 80 | 3 | / |
| Sohrb | 80 | 2 | / |
| Sorfs | 80 | 2 | / |
| Sorvs | 80 | 1 | / |
| Sorbz | 80 | 1 | / |
| Sarbs | 80 | 1 | / |
| Schorb | 73 | 477 | / |
| Shourb | 73 | 80 | / |
| Sherbs | 73 | 54 | / |
| Sarbst | 73 | 42 | / |
| Sourbh | 73 | 32 | / |
| Shorbh | 73 | 11 | / |
| Sharbs | 73 | 3 | / |
| Shorps | 73 | 1 | / |
| Sarb | 67 | 1,019 | / |
| Sârb | 67 | 172 | / |
| Zorb | 67 | 149 | / |
| Shourbh | 67 | 5 | / |
| Sorv | 67 | 4 | / |
| Sorbova | 67 | 3 | / |
| Scherbs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sorp | 67 | 1 | / |
| Shoorbh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Shorpst | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Sorbs
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