Below Surname
Approximately 4,707 people bear this surname
Below Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,580 | 1:31,204 | 4,110 |
| United States | 1,509 | 1:240,198 | 22,966 |
| Somalia | 196 | 1:68,633 | 2,887 |
| Israel | 94 | 1:91,039 | 10,708 |
| Brazil | 53 | 1:4,039,138 | 109,837 |
| Canada | 37 | 1:995,827 | 74,831 |
| Australia | 36 | 1:749,881 | 48,970 |
| Poland | 30 | 1:1,266,958 | 80,461 |
| England | 29 | 1:1,921,312 | 76,208 |
| Nigeria | 24 | 1:7,380,948 | 165,663 |
| Denmark | 23 | 1:245,422 | 19,084 |
| Spain | 16 | 1:2,922,002 | 63,384 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Hungary | 9 | 1:1,090,697 | 49,203 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| Liberia | 4 | 1:1,102,134 | 37,930 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 186 | 1:269,993 | 21,996 |
Below (91) may also be a first name.
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Below Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Below Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Below occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Below? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 100,370th most common family name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,548,236 people. The surname Below occurs mostly in Europe, where 58 percent of Below live; 55 percent live in Western Europe and 55 percent live in Germanic Europe. Below is also the 998,282nd most frequently used given name world-wide It is held by 91 people.
The surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 2,580 people, or 1 in 31,204. In Germany Below is most prevalent in: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 21 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 16 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 13 percent are found. Barring Germany this surname is found in 46 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 32 percent are found and Somalia, where 4 percent are found.
Below Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Below has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Below last name expanded 811 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 1,450 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Below Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Below surname are 23.36% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 70.13% registered with the political party.
The amount Below earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 1.86% less than the national average, earning $42,347 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.54% more than the national average, earning $58,894 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Below
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