Vanderkerken Surname
Approximately 164 people bear this surname
Vanderkerken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 143 | 1:80,396 | 12,660 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Vanderkerken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vanderkerken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Vanderkerken is found in Belgium more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Vanderkerken click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vanderkerken? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,353,468th most commonly used family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 44,436,256 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Vanderkerken are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 61 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most widely held in Belgium, where it is held by 143 people, or 1 in 80,396. In Belgium Vanderkerken is mostly concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 68 percent live, Brussels Capital Region, where 31 percent live and Walloon Region, where 1 percent live. Excluding Belgium this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in France, where 9 percent live and Luxembourg, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| vander Kerken | 96 | 4 | / |
| van der Kerken | 92 | 78 | / |
| Vanderkrieken | 88 | 44 | / |
| van Derkrieken | 85 | 10 | / |
| van der Kreken | 85 | 1 | / |
| van der Krieken | 81 | 176 | / |
| van der Kreeken | 81 | 1 | / |
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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 Vanderkerken
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