Wäcker Surname
Approximately 53 people bear this surname
Wäcker Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 39 | 1:2,064,243 | 111,952 |
| Switzerland | 13 | 1:631,763 | 43,230 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Wacker (22,875) & Wackér (2) are calculated separately.
Wäcker Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wäcker Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wäcker occurs most in Germany. It can also appear as a variant: Wacker or Wackér. For other potential spellings of Wäcker click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wäcker? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,661,929th most widely held surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 137,500,866 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Wäcker live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most widely held in Germany, where it is held by 39 people, or 1 in 2,064,243. In Germany Wäcker is most frequent in: Bavaria, where 77 percent are found, Baden-Württemberg, where 8 percent are found and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 5 percent are found. Barring Germany it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Switzerland, where 25 percent are found and Austria, where 2 percent are found.
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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
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- 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 Wäcker
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