de Retz Surname

2,776,799th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 49 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

de Retz Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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de Retz 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
France431:1,544,714145,815
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

de Retz Last Name Facts

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

The surname de Retz is found most frequently in France. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

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

The last name is the 2,776,799th most commonly occurring last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of de Retz reside; 88 percent reside in Western Europe and 86 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.

The last name is most commonly held in France, where it is carried by 43 people, or 1 in 1,544,714. In France it is primarily concentrated in: Île-de-France, where 58 percent are found, Hauts-de-France, where 19 percent are found and Occitanie, where 16 percent are found. Apart from France this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Russia, where 4 percent are found and Ireland, where 2 percent are found.

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De-Rets711/
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da Re673,752/
di Re67779/
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de Ruyte67129/
de Rijdt6793/
de Ré6742/
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de Reese6732/
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des Reis674/
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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 Retz
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