Breggen Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Breggen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 21 | 1:804,151 | 59,518 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Breggen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Breggen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Breggen is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Breggen? popularity and diffusion
Breggen is the 4,034,050th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 92 percent of Breggen live; 92 percent live in Western Europe and 92 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 21 people, or 1 in 804,151. In The Netherlands Breggen is primarily concentrated in: South Holland, where 38 percent reside, North Holland, where 33 percent reside and Utrecht, where 24 percent reside. Barring The Netherlands this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 8 percent reside and Belgium, where 4 percent reside.
Breggen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Breggen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Breggen surname declined 33 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Breggen
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