Vovkun Surname
Approximately 315 people bear this surname
Vovkun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 260 | 1:175,087 | 24,016 |
| Russia | 53 | 1:2,719,303 | 152,706 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Vovkun Demographics
Vovkun Religious Adherence
in Ukraine
Religious Adherence
in Ukraine
Vovkun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vovkun Come From? nationality or country of origin
Vovkun (Russian: Вовкун) is held by more people in Ukraine than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vovkun? popularity and diffusion
The last name Vovkun is the 862,604th most numerous surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 23,135,066 people. Vovkun is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Vovkun reside; 99 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 99 percent reside in East Slavic Europe.
The last name Vovkun is most commonly held in Ukraine, where it is borne by 260 people, or 1 in 175,087. In Ukraine Vovkun is mostly found in: Lviv Oblast, where 70 percent reside, Chernivtsi Oblast, where 16 percent reside and Khmelnytskyi Oblast, where 3 percent reside. Not including Ukraine this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 17 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Vovkun Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is principally Orthodox (43%) in Ukraine.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vovkun Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vovkun in the Russian language | ||
| Вовкун | vovkun | - |
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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 Vovkun
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