Bohlen Surname
Approximately 7,759 people bear this surname
Bohlen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4,523 | 1:17,799 | 2,334 |
| United States | 2,434 | 1:148,915 | 15,351 |
| Liberia | 583 | 1:7,562 | 883 |
| Brazil | 27 | 1:7,928,679 | 178,836 |
| Canada | 24 | 1:1,535,233 | 104,339 |
| Netherlands | 17 | 1:993,363 | 65,241 |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1:483,113 | 34,678 |
| Mexico | 15 | 1:8,275,080 | 36,578 |
| Sweden | 15 | 1:656,450 | 48,545 |
| Ireland | 13 | 1:362,226 | 14,761 |
| Russia | 12 | 1:12,010,255 | 361,204 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Wales | 9 | 1:343,837 | 18,086 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Poland | 6 | 1:6,334,792 | 156,558 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Austria | 3 | 1:2,838,478 | 93,604 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Armenia | 2 | 1:1,465,090 | 16,492 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 10 | 1:2,437,537 | 68,340 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 312 | 1:160,957 | 14,692 |
The alternate forms: Böhlen (850), Bohlén (28) & Böhlén (18) are calculated separately.
Bohlen (34) may also be a first name.
Bohlen Demographics
Average Male Bohlen Height
177.14 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Bohlen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bohlen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bohlen is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant: Böhlen, Bohlén or Böhlén. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bohlen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 64,485th most widespread last name globally It is held by around 1 in 939,238 people. Bohlen is mostly found in Europe, where 60 percent of Bohlen reside; 59 percent reside in Western Europe and 59 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Bohlen is also the 1,775,424th most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 34 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Germany, where it is held by 4,523 people, or 1 in 17,799. In Germany it is primarily found in: Lower Saxony, where 59 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 15 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 5 percent live. Beside Germany this surname occurs in 41 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 31 percent live and Liberia, where 8 percent live.
Bohlen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Bohlen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Bohlen last name grew 780 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 10 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Bohlen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Bohlen surname are 21.97% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 68.74% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Bohlen earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 15.71% less than the national average, earning 291,728 kr per year; in United States they earn 2.52% more than the national average, earning $44,235 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.99% less than the national average, earning $47,204 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 Bohlen
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