Helmes Surname
Approximately 3,347 people bear this surname
Helmes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,984 | 1:40,577 | 5,358 |
| United States | 727 | 1:498,568 | 41,951 |
| Netherlands | 372 | 1:45,396 | 7,721 |
| Tanzania | 98 | 1:540,221 | 34,788 |
| Mexico | 45 | 1:2,758,360 | 22,009 |
| Canada | 33 | 1:1,116,533 | 81,834 |
| Indonesia | 19 | 1:6,960,484 | 292,931 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| Australia | 11 | 1:2,454,155 | 103,534 |
| Poland | 6 | 1:6,334,792 | 156,558 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Peru | 4 | 1:7,946,031 | 41,846 |
| Malawi | 4 | 1:4,279,777 | 24,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 25 | 1:975,015 | 39,671 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:935,804 | 21,348 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 344 | 1:145,985 | 13,636 |
The alternate forms: Helmeš (18) are calculated separately.
Helmes (607) may also be a first name.
Helmes Demographics
Average Helmes Salary in
United States
$43,825 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Helmes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Helmes Come From? nationality or country of origin
Helmes is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Helmeš. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Helmes? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 134,500th most widespread surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 2,177,337 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 71 percent of Helmes reside; 71 percent reside in Western Europe and 71 percent reside in Germanic Europe. It is also the 339,191st most frequent first name worldwide. It is borne by 607 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 1,984 people, or 1 in 40,577. In Germany Helmes is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 54 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 16 percent reside and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 13 percent reside. Not including Germany this last name occurs in 29 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 22 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 11 percent reside.
Helmes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Helmes has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Helmes surname expanded 211 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 92 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Helmes Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Helmes are 14.1% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 60.87% being registered with the political party.
The amount Helmes earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 51.92% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,320 per year; in United States they earn 1.57% more than the national average, earning $43,825 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.34% less than the national average, earning $47,526 CAD per year.
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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 Helmes
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