Decline Surname

1,658,108th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 120 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
New Caledonia

Decline Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Decline Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France941:706,62589,060
United States71:51,779,848968,877
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
New Caledonia41:69,0566,678
Nigeria41:44,285,690437,567
Taiwan41:5,861,18633,577
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
England11:55,718,059489,080
French Polynesia11:280,8057,211
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States111:4,565,335193,764

Decline (23) may also be a first name.

Decline Last Name Facts

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

The surname Decline is most common in France. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Decline? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,658,108th most numerous surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 60,729,549 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 79 percent of Decline live; 78 percent live in Western Europe and 78 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Decline is also the 2,239,265th most commonly used first name worldwide It is held by 23 people.

The surname Decline is most commonly occurring in France, where it is borne by 94 people, or 1 in 706,625. In France Decline is primarily found in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 96 percent are found, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 2 percent are found and Brittany, where 1 percent are found. Beside France it occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 6 percent are found and Egypt, where 3 percent are found.

Decline Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Decline has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Decline last name contracted 36 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Decline
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