Völkening Surname

623,516th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 492 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Völkening Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Völkening Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany4861:165,64919,614
Switzerland31:2,737,638105,941
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States601:836,97851,589

Völkening Last Name Facts

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

The surname Völkening is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Völkening? popularity and diffusion

The surname Völkening is the 623,516th most frequently used last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 14,812,085 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Völkening are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 486 people, or 1 in 165,649. In Germany Völkening is primarily found in: Lower Saxony, where 66 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 24 percent are found and Hesse, where 4 percent are found. Outside of Germany this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 1 percent are found and Ireland, where 0 percent are found.

Völkening Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Völkening has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Völkening surname fell 98 percent between 1880 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 Völkening
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