Leeninga Surname
Approximately 90 people bear this surname
Leeninga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 85 | 1:198,673 | 27,603 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Leeninga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Leeninga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Leeninga occurs most in The Netherlands. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Leeninga? popularity and diffusion
Leeninga is the 1,967,751st most frequently held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 80,972,732 people. Leeninga is mostly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Leeninga are found; 97 percent are found in Western Europe and 97 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name Leeninga is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 85 people, or 1 in 198,673. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: North Holland, where 54 percent are found, South Holland, where 22 percent are found and Gelderland, where 9 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 2 percent are found and Luxembourg, where 2 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
- 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
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