Wlecke Surname
Approximately 101 people bear this surname
Wlecke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 99 | 1:813,186 | 59,527 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 38 | 1:1,321,544 | 72,820 |
Wlecke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wlecke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wlecke is found most frequently in Germany. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Wlecke click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wlecke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wlecke is the 1,839,022nd most commonly used last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 72,153,920 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Wlecke are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most widely held in Germany, where it is held by 99 people, or 1 in 813,186. In Germany Wlecke is primarily found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 67 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 18 percent live and Bremen, where 12 percent live. Aside from Germany Wlecke exists in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent live.
Wlecke Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wlecke has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wlecke last name decreased 95 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
- 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 Wlecke
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