Tankó Surname
Approximately 2,367 people bear this surname
Tankó Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1,226 | 1:16,377 | 2,102 |
| Hungary | 1,067 | 1:9,200 | 1,073 |
| Slovakia | 50 | 1:106,729 | 20,187 |
| Czechia | 21 | 1:506,356 | 52,868 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Tanko (185,371) are calculated separately.
Tankó Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tankó Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tankó is carried by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can also occur as: Tanko. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tankó? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 180,115th most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 3,078,811 people. Tankó occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Tankó are found; 100 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 52 percent are found in Romanian Europe.
This last name is most commonly held in Romania, where it is carried by 1,226 people, or 1 in 16,377. In Romania Tankó is mostly concentrated in: Harghita County, where 81 percent reside, Covasna County, where 10 percent reside and Bacău County, where 6 percent reside. Not including Romania this last name is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Hungary, where 45 percent reside and Slovakia, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Tankó
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