Germans Surname

775,315th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 366 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Latvia

Germans Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Germans Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1321:127,93319,924
Latvia981:20,9193,156
Lebanon881:64,0584,775
United States171:21,321,114641,998
India41:191,766,3461,073,940
England41:13,929,515290,718
Spain41:11,688,009116,470
Russia41:36,030,764577,589
Germany31:26,835,153452,368
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Switzerland21:4,106,458122,336
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Malawi11:17,119,10934,144
France11:66,422,722504,397
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England151:1,625,02553,310
Wales31:522,80514,314
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States361:1,394,96375,931

Germans (429) may also be a first name.

Germans Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Germans Come From? nationality or country of origin

Germans (Russian: Германс) occurs most in The Netherlands. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Germans? popularity and diffusion

The last name Germans is the 775,315th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 19,911,328 people. The surname Germans occurs mostly in Europe, where 69 percent of Germans reside; 38 percent reside in Western Europe and 37 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Germans is also the 414,511th most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 429 people.

This last name is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 132 people, or 1 in 127,933. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: North Holland, where 42 percent are found, Gelderland, where 19 percent are found and Utrecht, where 14 percent are found. Aside from The Netherlands this last name is found in 17 countries. It is also common in Latvia, where 27 percent are found and Lebanon, where 24 percent are found.

Germans Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Germans has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname declined 53 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 73 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Germans Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is primarily Maronite (96%) in Lebanon.

Germans earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 38.22% more than the national average, earning $59,641 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Germans Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Germans in the Russian language
Германсgermans-

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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 Germans
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