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

The last name Anft is found in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Anft? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,121,821st most commonly used surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 96 percent of Anft are found; 89 percent are found in Western Europe and 89 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

Anft is most widely held in Germany, where it is borne by 192 people, or 1 in 419,299. In Germany Anft is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 39 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 18 percent are found and Berlin, where 13 percent are found. Beside Germany this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in Czechia, where 6 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.

Anft Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Anft has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Anft last name rose 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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