Hiels Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Hiels Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 43 | 1:267,364 | 32,244 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Hiels Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hiels Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hiels occurs more in Belgium more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Hiels click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hiels? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,808,717th most prevalent surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 151,823,873 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Hiels reside; 94 percent reside in Western Europe and 94 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname Hiels is most widely held in Belgium, where it is carried by 43 people, or 1 in 267,364. In Belgium Hiels is mostly concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Belgium this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 4 percent are found and England, where 2 percent are found.
Hiels Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Hiels has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Hiels last name contracted 50 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 67 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 Hiels
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