Gelhaus Surname
Approximately 1,016 people bear this surname
Gelhaus Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 543 | 1:148,261 | 17,819 |
| United States | 455 | 1:796,613 | 61,475 |
| Austria | 9 | 1:946,159 | 70,786 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Gelhaus Demographics
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Gelhaus Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gelhaus Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gelhaus is found most in Germany. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gelhaus? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gelhaus is the 357,252nd most widely held family name in the world, held by around 1 in 7,172,781 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 55 percent of Gelhaus are found; 54 percent are found in Western Europe and 54 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 543 people, or 1 in 148,261. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 40 percent live and Bremen, where 4 percent live. Beside Germany this surname is found in 7 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 45 percent live and Austria, where 1 percent live.
Gelhaus Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Gelhaus has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Gelhaus surname expanded 5,056 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Gelhaus Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Gelhaus are 23.87% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 70.64% being registered with the political party.
Gelhaus earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 0.47% less than the national average, earning $42,945 USD 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
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