Anft Surname

1,121,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 216 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Anft Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Anft Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1921:419,29938,092
Czechia141:759,53467,321
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Croatia21:2,114,30285,143
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Anft Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Anft Come From? nationality or country of origin

Anft is found most frequently in Germany. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Anft? popularity and diffusion

The surname Anft is the 1,121,821st most widespread surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 96 percent of Anft reside; 89 percent reside in Western Europe and 89 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widespread in Germany, where it is carried by 192 people, or 1 in 419,299. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 39 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 18 percent are found and Berlin, where 13 percent are found. Apart from Germany Anft occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Czechia, where 6 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.

Anft Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Anft has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Anft last name increased 600 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Hanft892,043/
Anf8624/
Hanfft8029/
Hanpft807/
Hanf754,868/
Amft75586/
Anbt7517/
Anfe7515/
Ganf758/
Anmf751/
Aanf751/
Annf751/
Anwt751/
Anvt751/
Anfp751/
Anfs751/
Anfz751/
Atnf751/
Anftová7314/
Hanff671,131/
Hanfe67592/
Hainf6794/
Anffe6718/
Hanfs676/
Atnfs674/
Hamft672/
Eanef672/
Amnfp671/
Ampft671/
Aynfe671/
Asinf671/
Ainfh671/
Haunf670/
Ganff670/
Hanbt670/

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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 Anft
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