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 most common in The Netherlands. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Leijer? popularity and diffusion
The surname Leijer is the 2,034,059th most widely held last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 85,735,834 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 71 percent of Leijer reside; 38 percent reside in Western Europe and 38 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is held by 31 people, or 1 in 544,748. In The Netherlands Leijer is primarily found in: North Brabant, where 74 percent reside, North Holland, where 23 percent reside and Zeeland, where 3 percent reside. Barring The Netherlands this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also common 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
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