Desaleux Surname

1,321,499th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 170 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Desaleux Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Desaleux Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France1411:471,08366,853
England281:1,989,93178,001
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England41:6,093,842135,151

The alternate forms: Désaleux (1) are calculated separately.

Desaleux Last Name Facts

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

Desaleux occurs more in France more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Désaleux. Click here for further possible spellings of Desaleux.

How Common Is The Last Name Desaleux? popularity and diffusion

Desaleux is the 1,321,499th most widely held surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 42,867,917 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Desaleux reside; 83 percent reside in Western Europe and 83 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.

This last name is most prevalent in France, where it is borne by 141 people, or 1 in 471,083. In France Desaleux is most frequent in: Île-de-France, where 50 percent are found, Hauts-de-France, where 18 percent are found and Occitanie, where 18 percent are found. Apart from France this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in England, where 16 percent are found and Scotland, where 1 percent are found.

Desaleux Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Desaleux has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Desaleux surname expanded 700 percent between 1881 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
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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 Desaleux
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