Zoku Surname
Approximately 886 people bear this surname
Zoku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 672 | 1:190,244 | 8,752 |
| Albania | 111 | 1:26,253 | 4,255 |
| Uganda | 41 | 1:952,178 | 42,125 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Liberia | 23 | 1:191,675 | 12,886 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Greece | 3 | 1:3,693,263 | 126,191 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Zoku (43) may also be a first name.
Zoku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zoku Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Zoku is borne by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zoku? popularity and diffusion
The surname Zoku is the 397,537th most commonly held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 8,225,221 people. The last name Zoku is mostly found in Asia, where 76 percent of Zoku live; 76 percent live in East Asia and 76 percent live in Nippono-Asia. Zoku is also the 1,545,828th most commonly occurring given name in the world It is held by 43 people.
Zoku is most frequent in Japan, where it is borne by 672 people, or 1 in 190,244. In Japan Zoku is most numerous in: Yamaguchi Prefecture, where 45 percent live, Tokyo Metropolis, where 12 percent live and Ishikawa Prefecture, where 9 percent live. Other than Japan this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Albania, where 13 percent live and Uganda, where 5 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 Zoku
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