Gnest Surname
Approximately 57 people bear this surname
Gnest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 53 | 1:1,518,971 | 91,373 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Gnest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gnest Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gnest is found most in Germany. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gnest? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,555,468th most frequently occurring last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 127,851,683 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 93 percent of Gnest are found; 93 percent are found in Western Europe and 93 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name Gnest is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 53 people, or 1 in 1,518,971. In Germany Gnest is most numerous in: Lower Saxony, where 85 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 13 percent live. Barring Germany this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 5 percent live and Brazil, where 2 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 Gnest
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