Gilleßen Surname
Approximately 359 people bear this surname
Gilleßen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 358 | 1:224,876 | 25,165 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Gilleßen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gilleßen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gilleßen is most common in Germany. It may occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Gilleßen.
How Common Is The Last Name Gilleßen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 786,896th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 20,299,571 people. The surname Gilleßen is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Gilleßen reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Gilleßen is most commonly used in Germany, where it is held by 358 people, or 1 in 224,876. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 94 percent live, Berlin, where 6 percent live and Hesse, where 0 percent live. Excluding Germany it is found in one country. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 0 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
- 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 Gilleßen
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