Händel Surname
Approximately 2,701 people bear this surname
Händel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2,554 | 1:31,521 | 4,151 |
| Sweden | 86 | 1:114,497 | 8,198 |
| Denmark | 27 | 1:209,064 | 16,975 |
| South Africa | 10 | 1:5,417,770 | 150,016 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
The alternate forms: Handel (6,978) are calculated separately.
Händel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Händel Come From? nationality or country of origin
Händel is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Handel. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Händel? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 161,267th most frequent surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 2,698,092 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Händel live; 95 percent live in Western Europe and 95 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 2,554 people, or 1 in 31,521. In Germany it is mostly found in: Saxony, where 21 percent are found, Bavaria, where 18 percent are found and Baden-Württemberg, where 13 percent are found. Apart from Germany it exists in 17 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 3 percent are found and Denmark, where 1 percent are found.
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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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