Hoisan Surname
Approximately 667 people bear this surname
Hoisan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 361 | 1:126,102 | 17,824 |
| Romania | 160 | 1:125,487 | 13,763 |
| Thailand | 144 | 1:490,544 | 85,763 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hoisan (48) may also be a first name.
Hoisan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hoisan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hoisan has its highest incidence in Ukraine. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hoisan? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hoisan is the 495,028th most commonly held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 10,925,856 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 78 percent of Hoisan reside; 78 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 54 percent reside in East Slavic Europe. It is also the 1,448,253rd most commonly used forename at a global level It is held by 48 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Ukraine, where it is held by 361 people, or 1 in 126,102. In Ukraine Hoisan is primarily concentrated in: Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, where 70 percent live, Mykolaiv Oblast, where 7 percent live and Ternopil Oblast, where 7 percent live. Barring Ukraine it exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Romania, where 24 percent live and Thailand, where 22 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Hoisan
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