Gailans Surname
Approximately 120 people bear this surname
Gailans Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 76 | 1:26,974 | 4,129 |
| England | 35 | 1:1,591,945 | 67,242 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
The alternate forms: Gailāns (1) are calculated separately.
Gailans Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gailans Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gailans has its highest incidence in Latvia. It can appear in the variant forms: Gailāns. For other potential spellings of Gailans click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gailans? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,658,108th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 60,729,549 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Gailans reside; 93 percent reside in Northern Europe and 63 percent reside in Baltic Europe.
The surname Gailans is most common in Latvia, where it is held by 76 people, or 1 in 26,974. In Latvia Gailans is most frequent in: Riga Planning Region, where 63 percent live, Latgale, where 22 percent live and Semigallia, where 14 percent live. Without taking into account Latvia Gailans occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in England, where 29 percent live and Australia, where 3 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 Gailans
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