Lechte Surname
Approximately 628 people bear this surname
Lechte Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 465 | 1:173,130 | 20,361 |
| Australia | 136 | 1:198,498 | 19,506 |
| Sweden | 10 | 1:984,676 | 73,605 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Lechte Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lechte Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lechte is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lechte? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 518,760th most frequently occurring last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 11,604,372 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 77 percent of Lechte reside; 75 percent reside in Western Europe and 75 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Lechte is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 465 people, or 1 in 173,130. In Germany Lechte is mostly concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 74 percent live, Thuringia, where 10 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 9 percent live. Other than Germany Lechte exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 22 percent live and Sweden, where 2 percent live.
Lechte Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Lechte has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Lechte surname fell 62 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 Lechte
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