Ancien Surname
Approximately 184 people bear this surname
Ancien Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 159 | 1:417,753 | 60,954 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Ancien (350) may also be a first name.
Ancien Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ancien Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ancien is carried by more people in France than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ancien? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ancien is the 1,252,959th most common last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. The surname Ancien occurs predominantly in Europe, where 90 percent of Ancien reside; 89 percent reside in Western Europe and 88 percent reside in Gallo-Europe. Ancien is also the 465,882nd most frequently used first name worldwide It is held by 350 people.
Ancien is most frequently used in France, where it is carried by 159 people, or 1 in 417,753. In France it is primarily found in: Hauts-de-France, where 61 percent reside, Grand Est, where 22 percent reside and Centre-Val de Loire, where 8 percent reside. Not including France it occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 3 percent reside and Morocco, where 2 percent reside.
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ancien
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