Klehs Surname
Approximately 25 people bear this surname
Klehs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 18 | 1:4,472,526 | 177,866 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Klehs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Klehs Come From? nationality or country of origin
Klehs is held by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Klehs? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,957,383rd most widespread family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 291,501,837 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 76 percent of Klehs reside; 72 percent reside in Western Europe and 72 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 4,472,526. In Germany Klehs is most frequent in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 44 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 33 percent live and Brandenburg, where 6 percent live. Excluding Germany Klehs occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 24 percent live and Russia, where 4 percent live.
Klehs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Klehs has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Klehs last name rose 150 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
- 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 Klehs
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