Dörfling Surname
Approximately 229 people bear this surname
Dörfling Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 160 | 1:503,159 | 42,903 |
| South Africa | 68 | 1:796,731 | 54,178 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
The alternate forms: Dorfling (2,411) are calculated separately.
Dörfling Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dörfling Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dörfling occurs most in Germany. It can also occur in the variant forms: Dorfling. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dörfling? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,079,669th most frequently used family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 31,823,345 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 70 percent of Dörfling are found; 70 percent are found in Western Europe and 70 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Dörfling is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 160 people, or 1 in 503,159. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 48 percent are found, Saxony-Anhalt, where 13 percent are found and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 11 percent are found. Other than Germany it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 30 percent are found and Sweden, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Dörfling
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