Gelens Surname
Approximately 700 people bear this surname
Gelens Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 507 | 1:33,308 | 5,549 |
| Belgium | 92 | 1:124,964 | 18,228 |
| Argentina | 47 | 1:909,434 | 58,335 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| England | 8 | 1:6,964,757 | 184,742 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
Gelens (13) may also be a first name.
Gelens Demographics
Gelens Political Affiliation
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Gelens Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelens Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gelens is most common in The Netherlands. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelens? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 477,400th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 10,410,780 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 89 percent of Gelens live; 87 percent live in Western Europe and 86 percent live in Germanic Europe. Gelens is also the 3,159,357th most numerous first name internationally. It is borne by 13 people.
This last name is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 507 people, or 1 in 33,308. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: North Brabant, where 56 percent reside, South Holland, where 14 percent reside and North Holland, where 10 percent reside. Besides The Netherlands Gelens exists in 18 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 13 percent reside and Argentina, where 7 percent reside.
Gelens Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Gelens last name are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 60% registered with the political party.
The amount Gelens earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 20.33% less than the national average, earning $34,375 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.63% more than the national average, earning $55,463 CAD per year.
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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 Gelens
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