Gilessen Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Gilessen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gilessen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gilessen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gilessen is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Gilessen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gilessen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 8,193,072nd most frequent surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 80 percent of Gilessen are found; 80 percent are found in Western Europe and 60 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
It is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 40,252,730. In Germany Gilessen is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 100 percent live. Outside of Germany this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 20 percent live and Belgium, where 20 percent live.
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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 Gilessen
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