Kösser Surname
Approximately 113 people bear this surname
Kösser Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 112 | 1:718,799 | 54,527 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Kosser (2,753) are calculated separately.
Kösser Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kösser Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kösser occurs most in Germany. It can also be rendered as a variant: Kosser. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kösser? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,718,748th most commonly occurring surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 64,491,557 people. The last name Kösser is predominantly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Kösser reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 112 people, or 1 in 718,799. In Germany Kösser is most common in: Saxony, where 46 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent are found and Bavaria, where 11 percent are found. Apart from Germany it is found in one country. It is also common in South Africa, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Kösser
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