Präfke
surname · Latin script
Präfke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 451Kas Praefke(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 660Kfew recordsas Praefke
- USUnited States1 in 3.1Mas Praefke
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Präfke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 named Praefke, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Präfke in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Praefke in US United States, DE Germany, IE Ireland and 1 more and Prafke in CA Canada, AU Australia, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Präfke is found
(measured from records)Präfke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 656K | — | Praefke | 41 |
| US United States | 106as Praefke | 1 in 3.1M | 106 | Praefke | 67 |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 397K | — | Praefke | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Prafke | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Prafke | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 13as Praefke | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| AU Australia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Prafke | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 822K | — | Praefke | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Präfke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 people named Praefke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Ireland, Malaysia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Präfke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Praefke in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Präfke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pr%C3%A4fkeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Präfke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.