Gelauf Surname
Approximately 154 people bear this surname
Gelauf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 147 | 1:114,879 | 18,247 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Gelauf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelauf Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gelauf occurs most in The Netherlands. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Gelauf.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelauf? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gelauf is the 1,409,418th most frequently used last name globally, borne by around 1 in 47,321,727 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 99 percent of Gelauf live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Gelauf is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is held by 147 people, or 1 in 114,879. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: South Holland, where 69 percent live, Gelderland, where 11 percent live and Flevoland, where 7 percent live. Without taking into account The Netherlands it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 3 percent live and Belgium, where 1 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 Gelauf
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