Harnau Surname
Approximately 272 people bear this surname
Harnau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 227 | 1:354,650 | 34,247 |
| Romania | 28 | 1:717,067 | 48,956 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
The alternate forms: Hârnau (1) are calculated separately.
Harnau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Harnau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Harnau occurs most in Germany. It can be rendered as a variant: Hârnau. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Harnau? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 959,117th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 26,792,448 people. The surname Harnau is mostly found in Europe, where 94 percent of Harnau live; 84 percent live in Western Europe and 83 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 227 people, or 1 in 354,650. In Germany it is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 36 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 20 percent live and Berlin, where 18 percent live. Not including Germany it exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Romania, where 10 percent live and Brazil, where 3 percent live.
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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
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