Deffontaines Surname
Approximately 501 people bear this surname
Deffontaines Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 470 | 1:141,325 | 21,766 |
| Belgium | 15 | 1:766,443 | 63,354 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
Deffontaines Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Deffontaines Come From? nationality or country of origin
Deffontaines occurs in France more than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Deffontaines? popularity and diffusion
It is the 615,220th most frequently occurring last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 14,546,000 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of Deffontaines reside; 97 percent reside in Western Europe and 97 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The last name is most numerous in France, where it is borne by 470 people, or 1 in 141,325. In France it is most numerous in: Hauts-de-France, where 42 percent are found, Île-de-France, where 16 percent are found and Centre-Val de Loire, where 9 percent are found. Aside from France this surname is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 3 percent are found and Thailand, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deffontaine | 96 | 344 | / |
| Defontaines | 96 | 98 | / |
| Desfontaines | 92 | 2,185 | / |
| Defontaine | 91 | 2,760 | / |
| Defontanes | 91 | 1 | / |
| Desfontaine | 87 | 828 | / |
| Défontaines | 87 | 1 | / |
| Défontaine | 82 | 15 | / |
| Defonteine | 82 | 1 | / |
| Defantaine | 82 | 1 | / |
| Desfonteynes | 75 | 5 | / |
| Defonteyne | 73 | 13 | / |
| Defonteney | 73 | 1 | / |
| Defonteny | 67 | 20 | / |
| Desfanteynes | 67 | 1 | / |
| Defontenay | 64 | 68 | / |
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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 Deffontaines
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