Houles Surname
Approximately 902 people bear this surname
Houles Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 882 | 1:75,309 | 10,570 |
| Chile | 8 | 1:2,202,059 | 30,910 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 18 | 1:1,354,187 | 47,798 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
The alternate forms: Houlès (11) & Houlés (2) are calculated separately.
Houles Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houles Come From? nationality or country of origin
Houles occurs in France more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as: Houlès or Houlés. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Houles? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 392,160th most widespread surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 8,079,319 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Houles reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The last name is most commonly held in France, where it is carried by 882 people, or 1 in 75,309. In France Houles is mostly concentrated in: Occitanie, where 79 percent live, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 7 percent live and Île-de-France, where 5 percent live. Without taking into account France this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Chile, where 1 percent live and Canada, where 0 percent live.
Houles Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Houles has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Houles last name contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 89 percent between 1881 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 Houles
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