Broess Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Broess Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 71 | 1:237,848 | 31,022 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Broess Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Broess Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Broess is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Broess.
How Common Is The Last Name Broess? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,106,139th most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 91,094,324 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 89 percent of Broess live; 89 percent live in Western Europe and 89 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 71 people, or 1 in 237,848. In The Netherlands Broess is most numerous in: North Brabant, where 62 percent live, Utrecht, where 20 percent live and Gelderland, where 15 percent live. Not including The Netherlands this last name exists in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 11 percent live.
Broess Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Broess has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Broess surname rose 180 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 Broess
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