Cilliers Surname
Approximately 11,641 people bear this surname
Cilliers Surname Definition:
“Cellarer” or “Cellar” in French, particularly for wine and originally restricted to monasteries.
Cilliers Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 10,959 | 1:4,944 | 630 |
| England | 143 | 1:389,637 | 27,109 |
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| United States | 114 | 1:3,179,464 | 183,182 |
| Australia | 91 | 1:296,656 | 26,074 |
| Thailand | 31 | 1:2,278,656 | 255,572 |
| New Zealand | 30 | 1:150,944 | 17,319 |
| Mozambique | 25 | 1:1,090,463 | 1,880 |
| Canada | 19 | 1:1,939,242 | 123,675 |
| Zimbabwe | 11 | 1:1,403,476 | 76,064 |
| Scotland | 11 | 1:486,711 | 19,179 |
| Jersey | 7 | 1:14,172 | 2,872 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| Panama | 4 | 1:978,064 | 12,245 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 4 | 1:27,594 | 3,273 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Cayman Islands | 2 | 1:31,946 | 1,715 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
The alternate forms: Cilliërs (1) are calculated separately.
Cilliers (197) may also be a first name.
Cilliers Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
“Cellarer” or “Cellar” in French, particularly for wine and originally restricted to monasteries.
Cilliers Demographics
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Cilliers Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cilliers Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cilliers is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Cilliërs. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cilliers? popularity and diffusion
Cilliers is the 44,637th most prevalent family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 626,024 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Cilliers live; 96 percent live in Southern Africa and 95 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 646,152nd most frequent first name world-wide. It is borne by 197 people.
The surname Cilliers is most frequently held in South Africa, where it is carried by 10,959 people, or 1 in 4,944. In South Africa Cilliers is mostly concentrated in: Gauteng, where 33 percent live, Western Cape, where 20 percent live and Free State, where 11 percent live. Excluding South Africa this surname exists in 44 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent live and Malawi, where 1 percent live.
Cilliers Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Cilliers last name are 29.42% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 76.19% being registered with the party.
The amount Cilliers earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 90.18% more than the national average, earning R 451,944 per year and in United States they earn 1.91% more than the national average, earning $43,972 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cilliërs | 96 | 1 | / |
| Cilliersz | 94 | 2 | / |
| Cillietrs | 94 | 1 | / |
| Hcilliers | 94 | 1 | / |
| Cillers | 93 | 6 | / |
| Celliers | 88 | 1,954 | / |
| Chillers | 88 | 200 | / |
| Cilleirs | 88 | 1 | / |
| Scillers | 88 | 1 | / |
| Schillers | 82 | 48 | / |
| Sillers | 80 | 751 | / |
| Cellers | 80 | 112 | / |
| Zillers | 80 | 5 | / |
| Cyllers | 80 | 1 | / |
| Schillerås | 78 | 5 | / |
| Schillerst | 78 | 1 | / |
| Selliers | 75 | 36 | / |
| Chellers | 75 | 17 | / |
| Shillers | 75 | 4 | / |
| Scellers | 75 | 1 | / |
| Celleurs | 75 | 0 | / |
| Siellers | 75 | 0 | / |
| Sillears | 75 | 0 | / |
| Kliers | 71 | 16 | / |
| Schellers | 71 | 2 | / |
| Shelliers | 71 | 0 | / |
| Sellers | 67 | 63,617 | / |
| Zellers | 67 | 4,188 | / |
| Sellirs | 67 | 2 | / |
| Zoellers | 63 | 113 | / |
| Sellears | 63 | 72 | / |
| Shellers | 63 | 3 | / |
| Soellers | 63 | 2 | / |
| Sällerås | 63 | 1 | / |
| Sesllers | 63 | 1 | / |
| Sellersj | 63 | 1 | / |
| Sellerrs | 63 | 1 | / |
| Sellaers | 63 | 1 | / |
| Saellers | 63 | 0 | / |
| Zaellers | 63 | 0 | / |
| D'Sellers | 59 | 1 | / |
| Kläers | 57 | 1 | / |
| Klyers | 57 | 1 | / |
| Sellurs | 53 | 3 | / |
| Sellours | 50 | 0 | / |
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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
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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 Cilliers
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