Welkers Surname

1,604,449th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 126 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Welkers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Welkers Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany621:1,298,47582,291
Netherlands601:281,45334,544
France21:33,211,361423,184
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States111:4,565,335193,764

Welkers Last Name Facts

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

The last name Welkers is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Welkers? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,604,449th most frequently held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 57,837,666 people. The surname Welkers occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Welkers live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe.

Welkers is most frequently used in Germany, where it is held by 62 people, or 1 in 1,298,475. In Germany Welkers is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 87 percent live, Schleswig-Holstein, where 11 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 2 percent live. Not including Germany this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 48 percent live and France, where 2 percent live.

Welkers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Welkers has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Welkers last name fell 91 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Woelkers93245/
Velkers86201/
Wilkers86169/
Voelkers80119/
Welchers805/
Vlkers772/
Voelckers7546/
Völkers71565/
Vølkers7112/
Vilkers712/
Vílkers711/
Bilkers711/
Wilkirs710/
Völckers67100/
Wilchers673/
Wilkorsz672/
Welkirch671/
Blkirs6210/
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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 Welkers
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