Cloppenburg Surname

712,393rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 411 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Monaco

Cloppenburg Surname Definition:

Place name in Oldenburg, Northern Germany.

Cloppenburg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3981:202,27523,169
Netherlands61:2,814,529101,176
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
England11:55,718,059489,080
Monaco11:37,0664,748
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

Cloppenburg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Place name in Oldenburg, Northern Germany.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

Cloppenburg Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cloppenburg Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cloppenburg is most common in Germany. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Cloppenburg? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 712,393rd most frequently occurring surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 17,731,255 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Cloppenburg live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is held by 398 people, or 1 in 202,275. In Germany Cloppenburg is primarily concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 56 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent reside and Hamburg, where 8 percent reside. Outside of Germany this last name exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 1 percent reside and Brazil, where 0 percent reside.

Cloppenburg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Cloppenburg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cloppenburg surname contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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