Foehst Surname
Approximately 7 people bear this surname
Foehst Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Foehst Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Foehst Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Foehst is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Foehst? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 7,117,718th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 71 percent of Foehst are found; 71 percent are found in Western Europe and 71 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Foehst is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 20,126,365. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: Hamburg, where 25 percent live and Schleswig-Holstein, where 25 percent live. Barring Germany this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 29 percent live and Austria, where 14 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Foehst
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