Vocking Surname
Approximately 169 people bear this surname
Vocking Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 135 | 1:125,090 | 19,566 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 8 | 1:3,046,921 | 80,371 |
The alternate forms: Vöcking (525) are calculated separately.
Vocking Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vocking Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Vocking is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant: Vöcking. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Vocking? popularity and diffusion
Vocking is the 1,328,442nd most frequent last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 43,121,573 people. The surname Vocking is mostly found in Europe, where 97 percent of Vocking live; 82 percent live in Western Europe and 82 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 135 people, or 1 in 125,090. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Utrecht, where 42 percent reside, North Holland, where 18 percent reside and Overijssel, where 13 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands Vocking occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in England, where 15 percent reside and Switzerland, where 2 percent reside.
Vocking Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Vocking has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the surname expanded 313 percent between 1881 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 Vocking
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