Wöckener Surname
Approximately 239 people bear this surname
Wöckener Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 237 | 1:339,685 | 33,336 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
The alternate forms: Wockener (3) are calculated separately.
Wöckener Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wöckener Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wöckener is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Wockener. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wöckener? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,048,281st most frequently used family name globally, borne by around 1 in 30,491,824 people. The last name Wöckener is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Wöckener live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name Wöckener is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 237 people, or 1 in 339,685. In Germany it is most frequent in: Lower Saxony, where 82 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 7 percent live and Saxony-Anhalt, where 4 percent live. Besides Germany Wöckener exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 0 percent live and Czechia, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wockener | 96 | 3 | / |
| Weckener | 88 | 19 | / |
| Wackener | 88 | 0 | / |
| Wöckinger | 82 | 328 | / |
| Wackenier | 82 | 290 | / |
| Woeckener | 82 | 148 | / |
| Weckene | 80 | 1 | / |
| Wakener | 80 | 1 | / |
| Wokener | 80 | 0 | / |
| Wekener | 80 | 0 | / |
| Woekener | 75 | 0 | / |
| Wakene | 71 | 4,249 | / |
| Wekene | 71 | 21 | / |
| Veckeneer | 71 | 8 | / |
| Wokene | 71 | 1 | / |
| Woecaener | 71 | 1 | / |
| Vackiener | 71 | 0 | / |
| Wakenie | 67 | 4 | / |
| Vekener | 67 | 4 | / |
| Wackine | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wokeneh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wakhene | 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 Wöckener
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