Bortscher Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Canada

Bortscher Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bortscher Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany161:5,031,591189,895
Canada121:3,070,466169,836
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
France11:66,422,722504,397
Romania11:20,077,87089,414

Bortscher Last Name Facts

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

Bortscher occurs in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Bortscher? popularity and diffusion

The surname Bortscher is the 3,485,539th most commonly held last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 56 percent of Bortscher reside; 53 percent reside in Western Europe and 50 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

Bortscher is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 16 people, or 1 in 5,031,591. In Germany Bortscher is most numerous in: Rhineland-Palatinate, where 56 percent live, Saarland, where 31 percent live and Bavaria, where 6 percent live. Other than Germany Bortscher is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 38 percent live and The United States, where 6 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 Bortscher
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