Achternaam Surname
Approximately 187 people bear this surname
Achternaam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 170 | 1:99,336 | 16,160 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
Achternaam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Achternaam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Achternaam is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Achternaam? popularity and diffusion
The surname Achternaam is the 1,239,697th most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 38,970,834 people. The last name Achternaam occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Achternaam live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name Achternaam is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 170 people, or 1 in 99,336. In The Netherlands it is most prevalent in: North Holland, where 25 percent are found, South Holland, where 21 percent are found and Gelderland, where 18 percent are found. Without taking into account The Netherlands Achternaam is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 6 percent are found and Spain, where 1 percent are found.
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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
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