Heerma Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Heerma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 117 | 1:144,335 | 21,873 |
| Germany | 21 | 1:3,833,593 | 163,016 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Heerma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heerma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Heerma is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Heerma.
How Common Is The Last Name Heerma? popularity and diffusion
Heerma is the 1,465,390th most commonly held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name Heerma is predominantly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Heerma reside; 95 percent reside in Western Europe and 95 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Heerma is most numerous in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 117 people, or 1 in 144,335. In The Netherlands Heerma is most common in: Friesland, where 34 percent reside, South Holland, where 23 percent reside and North Holland, where 17 percent reside. Other than The Netherlands this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 14 percent reside and The United States, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Heerma
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