Gahlen Surname
Approximately 456 people bear this surname
Gahlen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 447 | 1:180,102 | 21,058 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Gählen (1) are calculated separately.
Gahlen (21) may also be a first name.
Gahlen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gahlen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gahlen occurs in Germany more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Gählen. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gahlen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 659,458th most frequent last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 15,981,460 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Gahlen live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe. Gahlen is also the 2,368,944th most prevalent first name world-wide. It is borne by 21 people.
The last name Gahlen is most numerous in Germany, where it is borne by 447 people, or 1 in 180,102. In Germany Gahlen is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 78 percent live, Berlin, where 8 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 5 percent live. Besides Germany it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
Gahlen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gahlen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Gahlen surname decreased 33 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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