Lefering Surname
Approximately 465 people bear this surname
Lefering Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 345 | 1:233,349 | 25,831 |
| Netherlands | 114 | 1:148,133 | 22,302 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Lefering Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lefering Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lefering has its highest incidence in Germany. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Lefering click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Lefering? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 650,013th most frequent last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 15,672,142 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Lefering are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Lefering is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 345 people, or 1 in 233,349. In Germany Lefering is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 95 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 2 percent live and Hesse, where 1 percent live. Aside from Germany it is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 25 percent live and Switzerland, where 0 percent live.
Lefering Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Lefering has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lefering last name declined 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leffering | 94 | 98 | / |
| Liefering | 94 | 9 | / |
| Leferin | 93 | 3 | / |
| Lieffering | 89 | 305 | / |
| Leiffering | 89 | 0 | / |
| Leferink | 88 | 2,244 | / |
| Lyfering | 88 | 2 | / |
| Leferimg | 88 | 1 | / |
| Lefern | 86 | 1 | / |
| Lieferink | 82 | 238 | / |
| Leeferink | 82 | 132 | / |
| Lijfering | 82 | 65 | / |
| Liffering | 82 | 2 | / |
| Loffering | 82 | 1 | / |
| Leferne | 80 | 3 | / |
| Leferen | 80 | 1 | / |
| Leffern | 80 | 0 | / |
| Liefferink | 78 | 101 | / |
| Lifiring | 75 | 3 | / |
| Lieffern | 75 | 1 | / |
| Lafaring | 75 | 0 | / |
| Laferink | 75 | 0 | / |
| Liefferinck | 74 | 1 | / |
| Lifern | 71 | 1 | / |
| Lefrene | 67 | 81 | / |
| Liffern | 67 | 0 | / |
| Lephirin | 63 | 1 | / |
| Liferenková | 53 | 6 | / |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Lefering
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