Illigen Surname

1,032,007th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 244 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Switzerland

Illigen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Illigen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1971:408,65737,472
Switzerland221:373,31428,226
Austria121:709,62061,025
Denmark101:564,47234,222
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States151:3,347,912150,340

Illigen Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Illigen Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Illigen is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Illigen? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,032,007th most prevalent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 29,866,991 people. The surname Illigen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Illigen are found; 95 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 197 people, or 1 in 408,657. In Germany Illigen is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 58 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 34 percent live and Saxony-Anhalt, where 8 percent live. Other than Germany this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Switzerland, where 9 percent live and Austria, where 5 percent live.

Illigen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Illigen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Illigen surname declined 93 percent between 1880 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
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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 Illigen
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