Ahlers Surname
Approximately 17,044 people bear this surname
Ahlers Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 11,321 | 1:7,111 | 887 |
| United States | 3,854 | 1:94,047 | 10,554 |
| Netherlands | 489 | 1:34,534 | 5,778 |
| South Africa | 401 | 1:135,106 | 15,678 |
| Uruguay | 200 | 1:17,159 | 1,944 |
| Denmark | 126 | 1:44,799 | 4,691 |
| New Zealand | 76 | 1:59,583 | 9,301 |
| Canada | 69 | 1:533,994 | 44,923 |
| France | 67 | 1:991,384 | 111,008 |
| Australia | 60 | 1:449,928 | 35,109 |
| Chile | 57 | 1:309,061 | 8,852 |
| Argentina | 43 | 1:994,033 | 62,207 |
| Switzerland | 34 | 1:241,556 | 20,206 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| England | 29 | 1:1,921,312 | 76,208 |
| Nicaragua | 28 | 1:215,039 | 2,611 |
| Ecuador | 23 | 1:691,559 | 12,337 |
| Brazil | 21 | 1:10,194,016 | 213,214 |
| Spain | 20 | 1:2,337,602 | 57,118 |
| Finland | 20 | 1:274,835 | 20,939 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Slovakia | 8 | 1:667,056 | 68,191 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1:1,861,869 | 14,990 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5 | 1:4,875,074 | 116,529 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 482 | 1:104,188 | 10,499 |
Ahlers (15) may also be a first name.
Ahlers Demographics
Average Male Ahlers Height
179.89 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Ahlers Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ahlers Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ahlers is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ahlers? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ahlers is the 31,332nd most frequently occurring family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 427,573 people. The surname Ahlers occurs predominantly in Europe, where 71 percent of Ahlers are found; 70 percent are found in Western Europe and 69 percent are found in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,900,335th most prevalent first name internationally. It is borne by 15 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Germany, where it is held by 11,321 people, or 1 in 7,111. In Germany Ahlers is primarily found in: Lower Saxony, where 43 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent are found and Schleswig-Holstein, where 7 percent are found. Excluding Germany this surname occurs in 40 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 23 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 3 percent are found.
Ahlers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Ahlers has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Ahlers last name increased 800 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 580 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Ahlers Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Ahlers surname are 22.31% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 69.08% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Ahlers earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 20.88% less than the national average, earning 273,828 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 85.8% more than the national average, earning R 441,528 per year; in United States they earn 4.55% more than the national average, earning $45,114 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.92% less than the national average, earning $48,727 CAD per year.
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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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