Greife Surname
Approximately 399 people bear this surname
Greife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 209 | 1:385,194 | 36,091 |
| United States | 187 | 1:1,938,283 | 125,322 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19 | 1:2,643,089 | 124,494 |
Greife Demographics
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Greife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Greife Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Greife is borne by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Greife? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 727,600th most frequently occurring last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 18,264,526 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 53 percent of Greife live; 53 percent live in Western Europe and 52 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 209 people, or 1 in 385,194. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 66 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 21 percent reside and Hesse, where 8 percent reside. Not including Germany this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 47 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
Greife Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Greife has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Greife last name rose 984 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Greife Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Greife last name are 11.37% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 58.14% being registered to vote for the party.
Greife earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 1.46% more than the national average, earning $43,780 USD 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
- 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 Greife
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