Käufer Surname
Approximately 952 people bear this surname
Käufer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 935 | 1:86,102 | 10,880 |
| Hungary | 7 | 1:1,402,325 | 60,133 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 119 | 1:422,006 | 30,979 |
The alternate forms: Kaufer (1,902) are calculated separately.
Käufer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Käufer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Käufer is found in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Kaufer. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Käufer? popularity and diffusion
Käufer is the 375,863rd most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 7,654,985 people. The last name Käufer occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Käufer are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most numerous in Germany, where it is borne by 935 people, or 1 in 86,102. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent are found, Bavaria, where 13 percent are found and Saarland, where 10 percent are found. Outside of Germany it exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Hungary, where 1 percent are found and Switzerland, where 0 percent are found.
Käufer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Käufer has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Käufer surname decreased 98 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
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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 Käufer
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