Gheerolfs Surname

1,980,395th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 89 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

Gheerolfs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Gheerolfs Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium861:133,68219,279
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
England11:55,718,059489,080

Gheerolfs Last Name Facts

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

The surname Gheerolfs is borne by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Gheerolfs? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,980,395th most frequently used family name globally, borne by around 1 in 81,882,538 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Gheerolfs live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 71 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most numerous in Belgium, where it is carried by 86 people, or 1 in 133,682. In Belgium it is primarily concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 73 percent reside, Walloon Region, where 26 percent reside and Brussels Capital Region, where 1 percent reside. Apart from Belgium Gheerolfs exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 2 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Geerolf88152/
Gerolf803/
Gralfs6750/
Geralf678/
Girolf672/
Crolfs671/
Gerolph630/

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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 Gheerolfs
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