Kereit Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Kereit Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 35 | 1:2,300,156 | 119,987 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Kazakhstan | 2 | 1:8,841,248 | 174,813 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kereit Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kereit Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kereit is more commonly found in Germany than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kereit? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kereit is the 3,017,195th most frequently held last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 93 percent of Kereit live; 93 percent live in Western Europe and 93 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 35 people, or 1 in 2,300,156. In Germany Kereit is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 54 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 23 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 14 percent live. Besides Germany Kereit exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 7 percent live and Kazakhstan, where 5 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kereit
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