Buurs Surname
Approximately 104 people bear this surname
Buurs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 95 | 1:177,760 | 25,545 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
Buurs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Buurs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Buurs is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Buurs? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,806,862nd most common surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 70,072,557 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 92 percent of Buurs live; 91 percent live in Western Europe and 91 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is held by 95 people, or 1 in 177,760. In The Netherlands Buurs is primarily concentrated in: North Holland, where 52 percent reside, Drenthe, where 25 percent reside and Overijssel, where 15 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands Buurs exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 4 percent reside and India, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burs | 89 | 695 | / |
| Burse | 80 | 5,415 | / |
| Bours | 80 | 1,800 | / |
| Burst | 80 | 1,212 | / |
| Burrs | 80 | 392 | / |
| Bursh | 80 | 388 | / |
| Buhrs | 80 | 301 | / |
| Buers | 80 | 295 | / |
| Burås | 80 | 126 | / |
| Beurs | 80 | 109 | / |
| Buirs | 80 | 65 | / |
| Burss | 80 | 60 | / |
| Baurs | 80 | 29 | / |
| Butrs | 80 | 12 | / |
| Bhurs | 80 | 3 | / |
| Bursz | 80 | 2 | / |
| Bursd | 80 | 1 | / |
| Bursø | 80 | 1 | / |
| Buyrs | 80 | 0 | / |
| Bourse | 73 | 1,970 | / |
| Bursch | 73 | 1,526 | / |
| Burshe | 73 | 369 | / |
| Bhurse | 73 | 175 | / |
| Bourst | 73 | 133 | / |
| Beurse | 73 | 40 | / |
| Buirse | 73 | 34 | / |
| Buirst | 73 | 29 | / |
| Boutrs | 73 | 17 | / |
| Bursøe | 73 | 11 | / |
| Bursze | 73 | 8 | / |
| Bursht | 73 | 3 | / |
| Burrsd | 73 | 1 | / |
| Burrss | 73 | 1 | / |
| Bourss | 73 | 1 | / |
| Bourrs | 73 | 0 | / |
| Bors | 67 | 13,584 | / |
| Burç | 67 | 1,487 | / |
| Bursová | 67 | 666 | / |
| Bursova | 67 | 574 | / |
| Bursche | 67 | 126 | / |
| Boursse | 67 | 31 | / |
| Baursch | 67 | 27 | / |
| Burš | 67 | 7 | / |
| Buersch | 67 | 5 | / |
| Burx | 67 | 4 | / |
| Burß | 67 | 1 | / |
| Bursowa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Bouhrse | 67 | 1 | / |
| Boursch | 67 | 1 | / |
| Wurs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Bhurshe | 67 | 1 | / |
| Burssch | 67 | 1 | / |
| Burrsch | 67 | 1 | / |
| Buhiers | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Buurs
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