Basterfield Surname

565,867th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 559 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Basterfield Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Basterfield Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England3641:153,07214,566
Australia711:380,22131,281
South Africa611:888,15957,770
Canada221:1,674,800111,190
United States141:25,889,924709,614
Scotland111:486,71119,179
Wales101:309,45316,869
Northern Ireland21:922,51818,701
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1681:145,09112,945
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States171:2,954,040135,915

Basterfield Last Name Facts

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

Basterfield is most common in England. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Basterfield? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 565,867th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 13,036,755 people. The surname Basterfield occurs mostly in Europe, where 69 percent of Basterfield live; 69 percent live in Northern Europe and 69 percent live in British Isles.

This last name is most commonly held in England, where it is carried by 364 people, or 1 in 153,072. In England it is most frequent in: West Midlands, where 36 percent are found, Greater London, where 16 percent are found and Somerset, where 9 percent are found. Besides England this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 13 percent are found and South Africa, where 11 percent are found.

Basterfield Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Basterfield has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Basterfield surname grew 217 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 18 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Basterfield Last Name Statistics demography

The amount Basterfield earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 79.76% more than the national average, earning R 427,188 per year; in United States they earn 0.97% less than the national average, earning $42,731 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.87% less than the national average, earning $47,762 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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Basterfield
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