Gerlain Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Gerlain Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 34 | 1:1,953,609 | 166,012 |
| Haiti | 5 | 1:2,136,781 | 15,037 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gerlain (179) may also be a first name.
Gerlain Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gerlain Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gerlain is found most in France. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gerlain? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,100,440th most widespread surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 85 percent of Gerlain live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 85 percent live in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 681,368th most commonly held forename throughout the world, borne by 179 people.
This surname is most numerous in France, where it is carried by 34 people, or 1 in 1,953,609. In France it is primarily concentrated in: Normandy, where 100 percent are found. Not including France this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Haiti, where 13 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.
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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 Gerlain
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