de Leest Surname

851,613th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 321 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

de Leest Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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de Leest 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
Netherlands2421:69,78211,887
Belgium431:267,36432,244
France281:2,372,240182,981
United States51:72,491,7871,102,614
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

de Leest Last Name Facts

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

de Leest is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

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

This last name is the 851,613th most numerous surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 22,702,635 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of de Leest live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 84 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name de Leest is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 242 people, or 1 in 69,782. In The Netherlands it is most common in: North Brabant, where 60 percent reside, Gelderland, where 23 percent reside and South Holland, where 9 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 13 percent reside and France, where 9 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

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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
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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 de Leest
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