Heifel Surname
Approximately 15 people bear this surname
Heifel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Heifel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heifel Come From? nationality or country of origin
Heifel is more frequently found in Germany than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Heifel click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Heifel? popularity and diffusion
The surname Heifel is the 5,057,639th most widespread family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 485,836,394 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 67 percent of Heifel reside; 67 percent reside in Western Europe and 67 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
It is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 8 people, or 1 in 10,063,182. In Germany it is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 88 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 13 percent are found. Beside Germany it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 20 percent are found and Austria, where 13 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
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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 Heifel
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