Wurg Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Wurg Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 38 | 1:2,118,565 | 113,742 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
The alternate forms: Würg (3) are calculated separately.
Wurg Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wurg Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wurg is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Würg. For other potential spellings of Wurg click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wurg? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,843,861st most numerous last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. Wurg is mostly found in Europe, where 81 percent of Wurg reside; 81 percent reside in Western Europe and 81 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
It is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 38 people, or 1 in 2,118,565. In Germany Wurg is primarily concentrated in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 50 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 29 percent live and Thuringia, where 16 percent live. Barring Germany this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 15 percent live and Thailand, where 4 percent live.
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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 Wurg
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