Clessen Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Clessen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Clessen (13) may also be a first name.
Clessen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Clessen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Clessen is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Clessen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Clessen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 8,193,072nd most widely held surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The surname Clessen occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Clessen are found; 80 percent are found in North America and 80 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name worldwide, borne by 13 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 90,614,733. In The United States it is most common in: California, where 75 percent live and Nebraska, where 25 percent live. Apart from The United States Clessen occurs in one country. It is also common in Brazil, where 20 percent live.
Clessen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Clessen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Clessen surname contracted 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 Clessen
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