Hählen Surname
Approximately 287 people bear this surname
Hählen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 273 | 1:30,084 | 4,523 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
The alternate forms: Hahlen (296) are calculated separately.
Hählen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hählen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hählen is found most frequently in Switzerland. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Hahlen. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hählen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 921,780th most frequently held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 25,392,146 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Hählen reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 95 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Hählen is most common in Switzerland, where it is carried by 273 people, or 1 in 30,084. In Switzerland it is primarily found in: Canton of Bern, where 68 percent reside, Canton of Zürich, where 16 percent reside and Canton of Lucerne, where 5 percent reside. Apart from Switzerland this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 4 percent reside and Germany, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Hählen
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