Grasshoff Surname

571,325th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 552 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Grasshoff Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Grasshoff Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3331:241,75826,460
United States1581:2,294,044142,811
Switzerland131:631,76343,230
Canada121:3,070,466169,836
Austria111:774,13064,097
France101:6,642,272293,169
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
England21:27,859,030389,889
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Latvia11:2,050,04660,295
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States321:1,569,33483,036

Grasshoff Last Name Facts

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

The last name Grasshoff is most common in Germany. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Grasshoff? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 571,325th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 13,202,076 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 68 percent of Grasshoff live; 67 percent live in Western Europe and 65 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most widespread in Germany, where it is carried by 333 people, or 1 in 241,758. In Germany Grasshoff is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 29 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 19 percent are found and Hamburg, where 13 percent are found. Aside from Germany this surname occurs in 14 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 29 percent are found and Switzerland, where 2 percent are found.

Grasshoff Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Grasshoff has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Grasshoff surname rose 494 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Grasshoff Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States Grasshoff are 19.02% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 65.79% being registered with the political party.

The amount Grasshoff earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 292.09% more than the national average, earning R 931,764 per year; in United States they earn 55.92% more than the national average, earning $67,279 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.97% more than the national average, earning $53,144 CAD per year.

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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 Grasshoff
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