Beniest Surname
Approximately 220 people bear this surname
Beniest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 111 | 1:103,573 | 15,679 |
| Netherlands | 72 | 1:234,544 | 30,714 |
| Wales | 23 | 1:134,545 | 9,804 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
Beniest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Beniest Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Beniest is most common in Belgium. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Beniest? popularity and diffusion
The surname Beniest is the 1,108,016th most frequent last name on earth, held by around 1 in 33,125,209 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 95 percent of Beniest are found; 84 percent are found in Western Europe and 73 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most numerous in Belgium, where it is held by 111 people, or 1 in 103,573. In Belgium Beniest is most prevalent in: Flemish Region, where 79 percent live, Walloon Region, where 14 percent live and Brussels Capital Region, where 7 percent live. Excluding Belgium this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 33 percent live and Wales, where 10 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Beniest
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