Bentlage Surname

290,533rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,318 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Bentlage Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bentlage Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany8391:95,95411,960
United States2791:1,299,13691,043
Netherlands1481:114,10318,152
Austria161:532,21549,801
South Africa131:4,167,516132,322
Canada121:3,070,466169,836
Switzerland41:2,053,22997,179
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
France11:66,422,722504,397
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States331:1,521,77881,120

Bentlage Last Name Facts

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

The surname Bentlage is most common in Germany. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Bentlage.

How Common Is The Last Name Bentlage? popularity and diffusion

The surname Bentlage is the 290,533rd most widely held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 5,529,246 people. The surname Bentlage occurs mostly in Europe, where 77 percent of Bentlage live; 77 percent live in Western Europe and 76 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most prevalent in Germany, where it is borne by 839 people, or 1 in 95,954. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 48 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 33 percent are found and Bavaria, where 8 percent are found. Excluding Germany it occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 21 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 11 percent are found.

Bentlage Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Bentlage has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Bentlage last name increased 845 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Bentlage Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Bentlage are 43.32% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 96.55% registered with the political party.

The amount Bentlage earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 134.04% more than the national average, earning R 556,164 per year; in United States they earn 4.4% less than the national average, earning $41,250 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.66% less than the national average, earning $42,397 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 Bentlage
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