Helmstädter Surname

1,409,418th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 154 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Helmstädter Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Helmstädter Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1521:529,64144,407
France11:66,422,722504,397
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:5,021,868210,693

The alternate forms: Helmstadter (183) are calculated separately.

Helmstädter Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Helmstädter Come From? nationality or country of origin

Helmstädter is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Helmstadter. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Helmstädter? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,409,418th most common family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 47,321,727 people. Helmstädter is predominantly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Helmstädter live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.

Helmstädter is most commonly occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 152 people, or 1 in 529,641. In Germany Helmstädter is primarily found in: Baden-Württemberg, where 46 percent are found, Hesse, where 30 percent are found and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 10 percent are found. Besides Germany Helmstädter is found in 2 countries. It is also found in France, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.

Helmstädter Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Helmstädter has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Helmstädter last name declined 90 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Helmstädter
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