Leijer Surname
Approximately 85 people bear this surname
Leijer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 31 | 1:544,748 | 49,659 |
| Sweden | 26 | 1:378,721 | 26,697 |
| Chile | 15 | 1:1,174,432 | 21,998 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Leijer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Leijer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Leijer is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Leijer? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,034,059th most frequently occurring last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 85,735,834 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 71 percent of Leijer live; 38 percent live in Western Europe and 38 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Leijer is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 31 people, or 1 in 544,748. In The Netherlands Leijer is mostly concentrated in: North Brabant, where 74 percent reside, North Holland, where 23 percent reside and Zeeland, where 3 percent reside. Besides The Netherlands it is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Sweden, where 31 percent reside and Chile, where 18 percent reside.
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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 Leijer
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