Taşkent Surname

338,461st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,087 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Turkey
Highest density in:
Northern Cyprus

Taşkent Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Taşkent Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Turkey1,0441:74,5426,896
Northern Cyprus411:7,7811,851
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Taskent (37) are calculated separately.

Taşkent Last Name Facts

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

Taşkent occurs most in Turkey. It can also appear in the variant forms: Taskent. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Taşkent? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 338,461st most numerous family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 6,704,274 people. The last name Taşkent occurs predominantly in Asia, where 78 percent of Taşkent reside; 78 percent reside in West Asia and 78 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands.

This surname is most frequent in Turkey, where it is borne by 1,044 people, or 1 in 74,542. In Turkey Taşkent is most common in: Istanbul Province, where 33 percent are found, Ankara Province, where 10 percent are found and Hakkari Province, where 6 percent are found. Besides Turkey this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Northern Cyprus, where 4 percent are found and Germany, where 0 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Taskent9537/
Taşkend861/
Tashkent80249/
Taşkanat80200/
Taskient801/
Tachkent801/
Tasakenti7511/
Taskend7125/
Taskentova712/
Taskanti6721/
Tasakant671/
Taskanta671/
Taskendi671/

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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 Taşkent
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