Sprakes Surname

1,290,735th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 176 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Sprakes Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sprakes Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1581:352,64625,413
Canada71:5,263,656239,735
Spain71:6,678,86292,666
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England291:840,53036,623
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:5,579,854232,921

Sprakes Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sprakes Come From? nationality or country of origin

Sprakes is found most in England. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sprakes? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,290,735th most frequently held surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 41,406,511 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of Sprakes are found; 90 percent are found in Northern Europe and 90 percent are found in British Isles.

The last name Sprakes is most frequently occurring in England, where it is carried by 158 people, or 1 in 352,646. In England it is most common in: South Yorkshire, where 19 percent are found, Lincolnshire, where 17 percent are found and Merseyside, where 9 percent are found. Outside of England this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Canada, where 4 percent are found and Spain, where 4 percent are found.

Sprakes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Sprakes has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Sprakes surname rose 545 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Spraekes930/
Sprake92904/
Spratke8640/
Spraske8615/
Sprakie861/
Sprakis861/
Sprokes860/
Spracker807/
Spreaker803/
Sprace770/
Sprackett7555/
Spraque7144/
Spraski7141/
Sprasky7114/
Sprauce711/
Sproker711/
Shprakha67179/
Spradque671/
Sprockett6349/
Sproski5796/
Sprouce5738/
Sprosky5714/
Šproker572/
Sprokay572/
Spreika572/

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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 Sprakes
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