Goebbels Surname
Approximately 982 people bear this surname
Goebbels Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 744 | 1:108,206 | 13,367 |
| Netherlands | 89 | 1:189,744 | 26,758 |
| Belgium | 79 | 1:145,527 | 20,575 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Brazil | 9 | 1:23,786,037 | 375,389 |
| Israel | 9 | 1:950,848 | 57,975 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 4 | 1:6,093,842 | 135,151 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
Goebbels Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Goebbels Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Goebbels is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Goebbels? popularity and diffusion
The last name Goebbels is the 366,882nd most frequently used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 7,421,126 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Goebbels live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 86 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Goebbels is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 744 people, or 1 in 108,206. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 88 percent reside, Baden-Württemberg, where 3 percent reside and Berlin, where 3 percent reside. Apart from Germany this last name is found in 19 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 9 percent reside and Belgium, where 8 percent reside.
Goebbels Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Goebbels has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Goebbels last name grew 150 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 94 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Goebbels Reference & Research
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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 Goebbels
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