Ancestor

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Ancestor

Quality:

Ancestor - person from whom another person is descended. Article “Ancestor” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Italian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 5084th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9236th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ancestor”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 763 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 512 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5233rd place) and cited 6791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #121 in September 2013
  • Global: #9845 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1757 in April 2021
  • Global: #36713 in November 2010

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Italian (it)
Antenato
34.712
2Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
34.6685
3Malay (ms)
Leluhur
29.2936
4Catalan (ca)
Ancestre
27.026
5Esperanto (eo)
Praulo
26.403
6Persian (fa)
نیاکان
26.3404
7Croatian (hr)
Predak
25.381
8Tamil (ta)
மூதாதை
25.1711
9Russian (ru)
Предок
25.1352
10Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
24.5537
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Ancestor" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ancestor
2 607 938
2Spanish (es)
Ancestro
888 391
3Polish (pl)
Wstępny
695 244
4Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
478 464
5German (de)
Vorfahr
342 027
6Japanese (ja)
先祖
256 246
7Indonesian (id)
Leluhur
193 304
8Chinese (zh)
祖先
184 609
9French (fr)
Ancêtre
174 025
10Russian (ru)
Предок
168 246
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Ancestor" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ancestor
8 773
2Chinese (zh)
祖先
634
3German (de)
Vorfahr
588
4Korean (ko)
조상
536
5French (fr)
Ancêtre
497
6Spanish (es)
Ancestro
489
7Japanese (ja)
先祖
478
8Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
357
9Polish (pl)
Wstępny
340
10Russian (ru)
Предок
327
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Ancestor" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ancestor
218
2German (de)
Vorfahr
73
3Spanish (es)
Ancestro
47
4Russian (ru)
Предок
34
5Hebrew (he)
אדם הראשון
33
6French (fr)
Ancêtre
32
7Chinese (zh)
祖先
31
8Hindi (hi)
पूर्वज
28
9Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
27
10Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
20
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Ancestor" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Italian (it)
Antenato
1
2Arabic (ar)
سلف (أصل)
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Əcdad
0
4Catalan (ca)
Ancestre
0
5Czech (cs)
Rodinný původ
0
6German (de)
Vorfahr
0
7English (en)
Ancestor
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Praulo
0
9Spanish (es)
Ancestro
0
10Basque (eu)
Arbaso
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Ancestor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ancestor
1 114
2Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
512
3Chinese (zh)
祖先
485
4Japanese (ja)
先祖
458
5Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
448
6Dutch (nl)
Voorouder
372
7German (de)
Vorfahr
359
8Korean (ko)
조상
337
9Indonesian (id)
Leluhur
309
10Spanish (es)
Ancestro
263
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
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Authors in June 2026:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
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Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
سلف (أصل)
azAzerbaijani
Əcdad
caCatalan
Ancestre
csCzech
Rodinný původ
deGerman
Vorfahr
enEnglish
Ancestor
eoEsperanto
Praulo
esSpanish
Ancestro
euBasque
Arbaso
faPersian
نیاکان
frFrench
Ancêtre
heHebrew
אדם הראשון
hiHindi
पूर्वज
hrCroatian
Predak
idIndonesian
Leluhur
itItalian
Antenato
jaJapanese
先祖
koKorean
조상
msMalay
Leluhur
nlDutch
Voorouder
plPolish
Wstępny
ptPortuguese
Antepassado
ruRussian
Предок
simpleSimple English
Ancestor
slSlovenian
Prednik
srSerbian
Предак
svSwedish
Förfäder
taTamil
மூதாதை
thThai
บรรพบุรุษ
trTurkish
Ata
ukUkrainian
Предок
urUrdu
آبا ؤ اجداد
viVietnamese
Tổ tiên
zhChinese
祖先
zhminnanMin Nan
Chó͘-sian

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1757
04.2021
Global:
#36713
11.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#121
09.2013
Global:
#9845
05.2012

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ancestor from Wikipedia articles about Mārama, Ethnicity, Homo, Kinship and Peter Mandelson. Whereas reading the article about Ancestor people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Grandparent, Ancestor worship, Genealogy, Antecedent and Evolutionary biology.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 先祖
zh: 祖先
ko: 조상
simple: Ancestor
tr: Ata
eu: Arbaso
hr: Predak
eo: Praulo
zhminnan: Chó͘-sian
az: Əcdad

News from 1 July 2026

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