Foltmer Surname

1,849,867th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 100 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Foltmer Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Foltmer Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany501:1,610,10995,088
United States491:7,397,121336,459
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States121:4,184,890180,076

Foltmer Last Name Facts

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

The surname Foltmer occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Foltmer? popularity and diffusion

The surname Foltmer is the 1,849,867th most numerous family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 72,875,459 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 51 percent of Foltmer live; 50 percent live in Western Europe and 50 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname Foltmer is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 50 people, or 1 in 1,610,109. In Germany Foltmer is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 68 percent are found and Bremen, where 32 percent are found. Besides Germany Foltmer exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 49 percent are found and Sweden, where 1 percent are found.

Foltmer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Foltmer has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Foltmer last name expanded 408 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Foltmer Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Foltmer surname are 25.96% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 72.73% being registered with the political party.

Foltmer earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 30.31% more than the national average, earning $56,228 USD per year.

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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 Foltmer
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