Herweijer Surname
Approximately 577 people bear this surname
Herweijer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 540 | 1:31,273 | 5,181 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Herweijer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Herweijer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Herweijer is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Herweijer? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 552,857th most widely held last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,630,062 people. It is primarily found in Europe, where 97 percent of Herweijer reside; 95 percent reside in Western Europe and 95 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
It is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 540 people, or 1 in 31,273. In The Netherlands Herweijer is most frequent in: South Holland, where 44 percent reside, North Holland, where 15 percent reside and Gelderland, where 13 percent reside. Not including The Netherlands Herweijer occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent reside and Switzerland, where 1 percent reside.
Herweijer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Herweijer has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Herweijer surname rose 167 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
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