Fürste Surname
Approximately 433 people bear this surname
Fürste Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 430 | 1:187,222 | 21,768 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 38 | 1:1,321,544 | 72,820 |
The alternate forms: Furste (32) are calculated separately.
Fürste Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fürste Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Fürste has its highest incidence in Germany. It may also occur in the variant forms: Furste. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Fürste? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 685,266th most commonly held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 16,830,360 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Fürste live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 100 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Fürste is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 430 people, or 1 in 187,222. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 32 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 22 percent reside and Saxony-Anhalt, where 11 percent reside. Not including Germany it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 0 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furste | 94 | 32 | / |
| Fürster | 92 | 43 | / |
| Fürstte | 92 | 1 | / |
| Fürst | 91 | 18,206 | / |
| Forste | 83 | 377 | / |
| Fürsth | 83 | 6 | / |
| Firste | 83 | 4 | / |
| Führst | 83 | 1 | / |
| Fürszt | 83 | 1 | / |
| Foerste | 77 | 249 | / |
| Forstie | 77 | 123 | / |
| Furster | 77 | 120 | / |
| Fuerste | 77 | 84 | / |
| Forstey | 77 | 16 | / |
| Forsthe | 77 | 14 | / |
| Firstie | 77 | 1 | / |
| Fierste | 77 | 0 | / |
| Furst | 73 | 6,274 | / |
| First | 73 | 2,020 | / |
| Vürst | 73 | 71 | / |
| Fűrst | 73 | 27 | / |
| Fuursted | 71 | 19 | / |
| Furstedt | 71 | 14 | / |
| Fourster | 71 | 1 | / |
| Fuerst | 67 | 4,268 | / |
| Firszt | 67 | 839 | / |
| Fierst | 67 | 750 | / |
| Firsht | 67 | 59 | / |
| Fürcht | 67 | 58 | / |
| Forsta | 67 | 51 | / |
| Forsti | 67 | 39 | / |
| Forsty | 67 | 31 | / |
| Fursht | 67 | 16 | / |
| Firsst | 67 | 8 | / |
| Firsth | 67 | 4 | / |
| Furszt | 67 | 3 | / |
| Fursty | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pfirst | 67 | 0 | / |
| Vurste | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Fürste
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