Vucans Surname
Approximately 200 people bear this surname
Vucans Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 194 | 1:10,567 | 1,554 |
| Germany | 5 | 1:16,101,092 | 397,699 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
The alternate forms: Vucāns (3) are calculated separately.
Vucans Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vucans Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Vucans occurs more in Latvia more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Vucāns. For other potential spellings of Vucans click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vucans? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,185,157th most common family name in the world, held by around 1 in 36,437,730 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Vucans are found; 97 percent are found in Northern Europe and 97 percent are found in Baltic Europe.
This surname is most frequent in Latvia, where it is borne by 194 people, or 1 in 10,567. In Latvia Vucans is most numerous in: Riga Planning Region, where 51 percent live, Latgale, where 43 percent live and Kurzeme Planning Region, where 3 percent live. Beside Latvia this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 3 percent live and Israel, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vucāns | 94 | 3 | / |
| Bucans | 83 | 10 | / |
| Vuskans | 77 | 102 | / |
| Buchans | 77 | 79 | / |
| Vutsans | 77 | 3 | / |
| Buckans | 77 | 2 | / |
| Vuškans | 77 | 1 | / |
| Vickans | 77 | 1 | / |
| Butchans | 71 | 5 | / |
| Bouchans | 71 | 2 | / |
| Buchanns | 71 | 1 | / |
| Buscains | 71 | 1 | / |
| Bukans | 67 | 6 | / |
| Vikans | 67 | 2 | / |
| Vickahhns | 67 | 1 | / |
| Bocans | 67 | 1 | / |
| Buckhauns | 67 | 0 | / |
| Butkans | 62 | 25 | / |
| Bouzans | 62 | 10 | / |
| Bockans | 62 | 3 | / |
| Buscams | 62 | 1 | / |
| Vuškāns | 62 | 1 | / |
| Voojans | 62 | 1 | / |
| Boukans | 62 | 1 | / |
| Boccans | 62 | 1 | / |
| Wickans | 62 | 0 | / |
| Bockhans | 57 | 13 | / |
| Bouchons | 57 | 2 | / |
| Bukatins | 57 | 2 | / |
| Wickeans | 57 | 1 | / |
| Wockhans | 57 | 0 | / |
| Bougians | 57 | 0 | / |
| Wickhans | 57 | 0 | / |
| Bokans | 50 | 43 | / |
| Wujanz | 50 | 32 | / |
| Bukanz | 50 | 2 | / |
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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 Vucans
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