Dirichs Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Dirichs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 54 | 1:1,490,842 | 90,195 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Dirichs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dirichs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dirichs is found most frequently in Germany. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dirichs? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,352,516th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 110,417,362 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Dirichs live; 83 percent live in Western Europe and 82 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is held by 54 people, or 1 in 1,490,842. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 74 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 19 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 4 percent live. Besides Germany Dirichs is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Denmark, where 15 percent live and Belgium, where 2 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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