Kempchen Surname

1,666,404th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 119 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Kempchen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kempchen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1141:706,18853,880
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
France11:66,422,722504,397
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422

Kempchen Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kempchen is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kempchen? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kempchen is the 1,666,404th most frequently used last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 61,239,882 people. The surname Kempchen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Kempchen are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 97 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 114 people, or 1 in 706,188. In Germany Kempchen is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 82 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 11 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 4 percent live. Apart from Germany Kempchen is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 1 percent live and Brazil, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kaempchen944/
Kämpchen88154/
Kampchen8816/
Kämpfchen821/
Kempken801,630/
Kempgen80108/
Kaempken753/
Kämpgen67133/
Kenpczyn631/
Kempsingh591/
Kibhen571/
Kivchin5312/
Kimpkin532/
Chebhen531/
Kebhain531/

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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 Kempchen
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