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
The last name Houles is more commonly found in France than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant: Houlès or Houlés. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houles? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 392,160th most frequently used surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 8,079,319 people. Houles is primarily found in Europe, where 98 percent of Houles reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.
The last name Houles is most commonly occurring in France, where it is held by 882 people, or 1 in 75,309. In France it is primarily concentrated in: Occitanie, where 79 percent are found, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 7 percent are found and Île-de-France, where 5 percent are found. Besides France Houles is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Chile, where 1 percent are found and Canada, where 0 percent are found.
Houles Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Houles has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Houles last name fell 75 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 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
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