Werks Surname
Approximately 31 people bear this surname
Werks Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:19,076,786 | 604,894 |
| Germany | 10 | 1:8,050,546 | 248,660 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 23 | 1:2,183,421 | 107,224 |
Werks (23) may also be a first name.
Werks Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Werks Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Werks is found most in The United States. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Werks? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,543,123rd most widely held last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 235,082,126 people. This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 61 percent of Werks are found; 61 percent are found in North America and 61 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Werks is also the 2,239,265th most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 23 people.
The surname Werks is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 19 people, or 1 in 19,076,786. In The United States it is mostly found in: Illinois, where 32 percent reside, Colorado, where 11 percent reside and Texas, where 11 percent reside. Barring The United States this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 32 percent reside and Luxembourg, where 3 percent reside.
Werks Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Werks has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Werks surname contracted 17 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wierks | 91 | 173 | / |
| Wiercks | 83 | 13 | / |
| Works | 80 | 232 | / |
| Wirks | 80 | 56 | / |
| Werkx | 80 | 18 | / |
| Warks | 80 | 16 | / |
| Wergs | 80 | 4 | / |
| Wreks | 80 | 1 | / |
| Verks | 80 | 1 | / |
| Werkz | 80 | 0 | / |
| Berksh | 73 | 324 | / |
| Werckx | 73 | 298 | / |
| Bercks | 73 | 23 | / |
| Wircks | 73 | 21 | / |
| Worksh | 73 | 9 | / |
| Vierks | 73 | 9 | / |
| Wierkx | 73 | 5 | / |
| Wrecks | 73 | 5 | / |
| Warksh | 73 | 1 | / |
| Werchs | 73 | 0 | / |
| Bearks | 73 | 0 | / |
| Wierckx | 67 | 233 | / |
| Wierckz | 67 | 42 | / |
| Werx | 67 | 2 | / |
| Wierchs | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Werks
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