Greize Surname
Approximately 43 people bear this surname
Greize Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 42 | 1:48,811 | 7,408 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Greize (104) may also be a first name.
Greize Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Greize Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Greize is borne by more people in Latvia than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Greize? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,979,664th most commonly held family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 169,477,812 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Greize live; 98 percent live in Northern Europe and 98 percent live in Baltic Europe. It is also the 925,156th most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 104 people.
Greize is most widely held in Latvia, where it is carried by 42 people, or 1 in 48,811. In Latvia Greize is most prevalent in: Riga Planning Region, where 62 percent are found, Vidzeme, where 29 percent are found and Semigallia, where 5 percent are found. Without taking into account Latvia this last name exists in one country. It is also found in Russia, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Greize
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