Sorns Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Sorns Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 18 | 1:4,472,526 | 177,866 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
The alternate forms: Sörns (15) are calculated separately.
Sorns Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sorns Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sorns is found most frequently in Germany. It can also occur in the variant forms: Sörns. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sorns? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,034,050th most commonly occurring family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname Sorns occurs mostly in Europe, where 79 percent of Sorns are found; 75 percent are found in Western Europe and 75 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Sorns is most commonly used in Germany, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 4,472,526. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent are found, Bavaria, where 39 percent are found and Brandenburg, where 6 percent are found. Aside from Germany it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Taiwan, where 13 percent are found and Latvia, where 4 percent are found.
Sorns Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Sorns has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sorns last name declined 94 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Sorns
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