Hestermeyer Surname

2,034,059th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 85 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Hestermeyer Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Hestermeyer Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany831:969,94567,438
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

Hestermeyer Last Name Facts

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

The surname Hestermeyer is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Hestermeyer? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 2,034,059th most widely held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 85,735,834 people. The surname Hestermeyer is primarily found in Europe, where 98 percent of Hestermeyer live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most prevalent in Germany, where it is borne by 83 people, or 1 in 969,945. In Germany Hestermeyer is primarily concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 96 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 2 percent live and Berlin, where 1 percent live. Aside from Germany it occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent live.

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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 Hestermeyer
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