de Ligt Surname

466,730th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 721 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

de Ligt Surname User-submission:

This last name is Dutch. It means 'one who came from a person who told lies'.

de Ligt 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
Netherlands6791:24,8714,045
Australia161:1,687,23181,699
Denmark41:1,411,17960,800
France41:16,605,680368,153
Suriname41:138,1547,029
Belgium31:3,832,215117,288
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
England11:55,718,059489,080
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
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de Ligt Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

This last name is Dutch. It means 'one who came from a person who told lies'.

- Ariel G
DNA test information

de Ligt Last Name Facts

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

de Ligt is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

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

The last name de Ligt is the 466,730th most frequent last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 10,107,553 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of de Ligt are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 679 people, or 1 in 24,871. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: South Holland, where 46 percent live, Utrecht, where 17 percent live and North Holland, where 15 percent live. Not including The Netherlands it occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 2 percent live and Denmark, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
de Lugt86174/
de Luig861/
de Leigh801/
der Lugt801/
de Laigue7525/
de Leigue752/
de Legh711/
de Loix711/
de Lek622/
de Lecq575/
des Lyc571/
de Luyk571/
de Luyck53251/
de Leeck5325/
de Leske533/
de Leque532/
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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to de Ligt
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