Gräfenhan Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Gräfenhan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 44 | 1:1,829,670 | 103,431 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Gräfenhan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gräfenhan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gräfenhan is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of Gräfenhan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gräfenhan? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,909,720th most widespread surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Gräfenhan are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 1,829,670. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Thuringia, where 61 percent live, Saxony, where 20 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 16 percent live. Not including Germany it occurs in one country. It is also common in Canada, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gräfenhain | 95 | 59 | / |
| Gräfenhahn | 95 | 12 | / |
| Grafenhain | 84 | 9 | / |
| Graefenhan | 84 | 1 | / |
| Grefenhann | 84 | 1 | / |
| Graefenhain | 80 | 38 | / |
| Greifenhahn | 80 | 37 | / |
| Greifenhain | 80 | 2 | / |
| Graifenhain | 80 | 1 | / |
| Graefenhayn | 80 | 1 | / |
| Graefenhaijn | 76 | 8 | / |
| Greiffenhahn | 76 | 0 | / |
| Greifenhasen | 76 | 0 | / |
| Griffenham | 74 | 16 | / |
| Gräfenheim | 74 | 1 | / |
| Grefenhaim | 74 | 1 | / |
| Grefenheim | 63 | 17 | / |
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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 Gräfenhan
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