Bührig Surname
Approximately 677 people bear this surname
Bührig Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 662 | 1:121,609 | 14,876 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 1:586,637 | 40,624 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
The alternate forms: Buhrig (158) are calculated separately.
Bührig Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bührig Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bührig is found most in Germany. It may appear as a variant: Buhrig. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bührig? popularity and diffusion
The last name Bührig is the 489,550th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 10,764,470 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Bührig are found; 100 percent are found in Western Europe and 100 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
It is most commonly used in Germany, where it is held by 662 people, or 1 in 121,609. In Germany Bührig is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 50 percent live, Saxony-Anhalt, where 19 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 9 percent live. Other than Germany it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Switzerland, where 2 percent live and Sweden, where 0 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
- 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 Bührig
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