Laaf Surname
Approximately 175 people bear this surname
Laaf Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 101 | 1:797,084 | 58,657 |
| Aruba | 23 | 1:4,499 | 638 |
| Brazil | 21 | 1:10,194,016 | 213,214 |
| Netherlands | 18 | 1:938,176 | 63,634 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Curaçao | 1 | 1:157,247 | 1,313 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Laaf Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Laaf Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Laaf occurs most in Germany. It may be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Laaf? popularity and diffusion
The surname Laaf is the 1,295,379th most frequently held family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 41,643,120 people. The surname Laaf is mostly found in Europe, where 70 percent of Laaf live; 69 percent live in Western Europe and 68 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Laaf is most widely held in Germany, where it is held by 101 people, or 1 in 797,084. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 91 percent live, Hesse, where 6 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 1 percent live. Beside Germany this last name is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in Aruba, where 13 percent live and Brazil, where 12 percent live.
Laaf Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Laaf has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Laaf surname contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lahaf | 89 | 403 | / |
| Laaff | 89 | 50 | / |
| Laafe | 89 | 2 | / |
| Laaft | 89 | 1 | / |
| Laf | 86 | 842 | / |
| Laaffe | 80 | 0 | / |
| Leaf | 75 | 6,194 | / |
| Lauf | 75 | 2,203 | / |
| Laab | 75 | 975 | / |
| Layf | 75 | 574 | / |
| Laff | 75 | 562 | / |
| Lafe | 75 | 482 | / |
| Latf | 75 | 329 | / |
| Laif | 75 | 226 | / |
| Lyaf | 75 | 140 | / |
| Laav | 75 | 52 | / |
| Laft | 75 | 34 | / |
| Lhaf | 75 | 31 | / |
| Laaw | 75 | 19 | / |
| Lawf | 75 | 5 | / |
| Lafs | 75 | 4 | / |
| Lazf | 75 | 3 | / |
| Lapf | 75 | 3 | / |
| Lasf | 75 | 2 | / |
| Lafh | 75 | 2 | / |
| Lajf | 75 | 2 | / |
| Ladf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Liaf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Lahf | 75 | 1 | / |
| Lafp | 75 | 1 | / |
| Lafz | 75 | 1 | / |
| Liahaff | 73 | 17 | / |
| Laatfch | 73 | 2 | / |
| Lahav | 67 | 3,231 | / |
| Lauff | 67 | 1,575 | / |
| Laufs | 67 | 1,229 | / |
| Leafe | 67 | 778 | / |
| Lhafe | 67 | 236 | / |
| Lashf | 67 | 231 | / |
| Laufe | 67 | 93 | / |
| Laffe | 67 | 91 | / |
| Leaff | 67 | 48 | / |
| Laitf | 67 | 44 | / |
| Lauft | 67 | 38 | / |
| Lahaw | 67 | 34 | / |
| Latff | 67 | 16 | / |
| Llasf | 67 | 9 | / |
| Laife | 67 | 9 | / |
| Laaph | 67 | 6 | / |
| Liaft | 67 | 5 | / |
| Hlaft | 67 | 5 | / |
| Lattf | 67 | 4 | / |
| Latfe | 67 | 3 | / |
| Llaab | 67 | 2 | / |
| Lauwf | 67 | 2 | / |
| Laffs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Leafs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Laudf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lathf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lawff | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lahff | 67 | 1 | / |
| Laiff | 67 | 1 | / |
| Laaib | 67 | 1 | / |
| Layfh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lyaff | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lyaab | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lgafh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Laaab | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lazft | 67 | 1 | / |
| Lafft | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Laaf
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