Föste Surname
Approximately 389 people bear this surname
Föste Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 389 | 1:206,955 | 23,572 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 23 | 1:2,183,421 | 107,224 |
The alternate forms: Foste (307) & Fosté (20) are calculated separately.
Föste Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Föste Come From? nationality or country of origin
Föste is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Foste or Fosté. For other possible spellings of Föste click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Föste? popularity and diffusion
It is the 741,235th most prevalent last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 18,734,051 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Föste live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 100 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Föste is most widespread in Germany, where it is borne by 389 people, or 1 in 206,955. In Germany Föste is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 81 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 11 percent live and Bremen, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foste | 93 | 307 | / |
| Föster | 91 | 133 | / |
| Föst | 89 | 326 | / |
| Fosté | 87 | 20 | / |
| Feste | 80 | 559 | / |
| Faste | 80 | 127 | / |
| Föhst | 80 | 100 | / |
| Vöste | 80 | 21 | / |
| Fäste | 80 | 19 | / |
| Pföst | 80 | 11 | / |
| Festeu | 73 | 353 | / |
| Foeste | 73 | 131 | / |
| Fostey | 73 | 69 | / |
| Festey | 73 | 63 | / |
| Fostei | 73 | 56 | / |
| Festei | 73 | 41 | / |
| Fastie | 73 | 39 | / |
| Faeste | 73 | 16 | / |
| Fostie | 73 | 16 | / |
| Fostej | 73 | 12 | / |
| Fostee | 73 | 5 | / |
| Fostea | 73 | 5 | / |
| Feshte | 73 | 1 | / |
| Feuste | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fäster | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fosteu | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fosteh | 73 | 1 | / |
| Faaste | 73 | 1 | / |
| Festte | 73 | 0 | / |
| Fastee | 73 | 0 | / |
| Fast | 67 | 17,740 | / |
| Fest | 67 | 3,233 | / |
| Fost | 67 | 619 | / |
| Vöst | 67 | 347 | / |
| Fäst | 67 | 21 | / |
| Feshtei | 67 | 21 | / |
| Feshtey | 67 | 7 | / |
| Fastheh | 67 | 3 | / |
| Fasthie | 67 | 2 | / |
| Feshteh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Feustei | 67 | 1 | / |
| Fesstey | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Föste
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