de Leer Surname

3,373,373rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 34 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

de Leer Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

de Leer Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands241:703,63256,027
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295

de Leer Last Name Facts

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

de Leer is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name de Leer? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,373,373rd most numerous family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 214,339,586 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 76 percent of de Leer reside; 76 percent reside in Western Europe and 76 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The surname de Leer is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 24 people, or 1 in 703,632. In The Netherlands de Leer is mostly concentrated in: Gelderland, where 58 percent are found and North Holland, where 42 percent are found. Outside of The Netherlands this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 21 percent are found and Belgium, where 6 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

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de Layre6718/
de Geele6710/
de Lojor678/
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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 de Leer
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