Yurko Surname

84,431st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,723 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Guam

Yurko Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Yurko Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine2,3901:19,0472,628
Russia1,2931:111,46413,509
United States1,1751:308,47628,327
Belarus5511:17,2432,826
Canada1341:274,96725,811
Moldova381:93,72011,459
Transnistria351:13,5632,609
Kazakhstan331:535,83338,572
Guam251:6,405908
Israel141:611,26042,949
Argentina121:3,561,951138,643
Kyrgyzstan71:853,23652,732
Lebanon31:1,879,02822,073
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
France11:66,422,722504,397
England11:55,718,059489,080
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Australia11:26,995,701270,794

Yurko (339) may also be a first name.

Yurko Last Name Facts

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

The surname Yurko (Arabic: يوركو, Russian: Юрко) is more frequently found in Ukraine than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Yurko? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 84,431st most widely held last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,273,379 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 71 percent of Yurko are found; 71 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 70 percent are found in East Slavic Europe. Yurko is also the 474,488th most frequently used forename throughout the world. It is borne by 339 people.

The last name is most frequently occurring in Ukraine, where it is carried by 2,390 people, or 1 in 19,047. In Ukraine it is most common in: Poltava Oblast, where 16 percent live, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where 13 percent live and Donetsk Oblast, where 7 percent live. Besides Ukraine it is found in 22 countries. It is also common in Russia, where 23 percent live and The United States, where 21 percent live.

Yurko Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Yurko surname is principally Orthodox (89%) in Russia, Orthodox (95%) in Belarus, Maronite (100%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (86%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those bearing the Yurko surname are 12.57% more likely to be registered United Russias than The US average, with 59.34% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Yurko earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 1.5% more than the national average, earning $43,798 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.99% more than the national average, earning $52,661 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Yourko9143/
Yurkoo911/
Yurcko911/
Yurkoa911/
Yurkoit8338/
Yourkou831/
Jurko801,485/
Yurka80201/
Yurco80157/
Iurko80153/
Yurkoits772/
Yourka73420/
Hiurko7364/
Jurkko7352/
Ijurko7333/
Giurko7313/
Jhurko735/
Ayorko731/
Yourco731/
Jurkojć67160/
Jurkoit6772/
Jurkoić672/
Yiorkou671/

Yurko Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Yurko in the Russian language
Юркоurko-
Yurko in the Arabic language
يوركوywrkw-

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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 Yurko
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