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 occurs most in France. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ancien? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,252,959th most widespread last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 90 percent of Ancien are found; 89 percent are found in Western Europe and 88 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. Ancien is also the 465,882nd most frequently used first name worldwide, held by 350 people.
The last name Ancien is most numerous in France, where it is carried by 159 people, or 1 in 417,753. In France Ancien is most frequent in: Hauts-de-France, where 61 percent live, Grand Est, where 22 percent live and Centre-Val de Loire, where 8 percent live. Without taking into account France this last name occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 3 percent live and Morocco, where 2 percent live.
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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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