Dijken Surname
Approximately 235 people bear this surname
Dijken Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 225 | 1:75,054 | 12,725 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Dijken Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dijken Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dijken has its highest incidence in The Netherlands. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Dijken.
How Common Is The Last Name Dijken? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,061,269th most frequently occurring family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 31,010,834 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Dijken reside; 96 percent reside in Western Europe and 96 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most common in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 225 people, or 1 in 75,054. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: South Holland, where 22 percent live, Groningen, where 20 percent live and North Brabant, where 14 percent live. Beside The Netherlands it is found in 5 countries. It is also found in England, where 3 percent live and Norway, where 0 percent live.
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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
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