Wooks Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Liberia
Highest density in:
Liberia

Wooks Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Wooks 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
Liberia91:489,83723,279
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
Wales11:3,094,53244,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:4,062,562101,150
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

Wooks Last Name Facts

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

The last name Wooks occurs more in Liberia more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Wooks? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 5,812,366th most frequent last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 82 percent of Wooks live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Anglo-West Africa.

The last name Wooks is most frequent in Liberia, where it is carried by 9 people, or 1 in 489,837. In Liberia it is primarily concentrated in: Bong County, where 100 percent reside. Excluding Liberia this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 9 percent reside and Wales, where 9 percent reside.

Wooks Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Wooks has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name decreased 75 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
Woks8926/
Wocks8092/
Woogs801/
Boocks73168/
Woicks730/
Waks671,704/
Voks6755/
Wogksch6750/
Woox673/
Uoks672/
Wokz671/
Wocs671/
Woxs671/
Woqs671/
Wuks671/
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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 Wooks
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