Lenfers Surname

592,650th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 526 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Lenfers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lenfers Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany2431:331,29832,825
Brazil2311:926,72933,128
United States301:12,081,964463,456
France221:3,019,215204,848
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:5,021,868210,693

Lenfers Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lenfers Come From? nationality or country of origin

Lenfers is most common in Germany. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Lenfers? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 592,650th most frequently used last name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 13,854,650 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 50 percent of Lenfers reside; 50 percent reside in Western Europe and 46 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This surname is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 243 people, or 1 in 331,298. In Germany Lenfers is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 79 percent live, Hamburg, where 5 percent live and Hesse, where 5 percent live. Excluding Germany this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 44 percent live and The United States, where 6 percent live.

Lenfers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Lenfers has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Lenfers surname expanded 300 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Lenfers Last Name Statistics demography

Lenfers earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 6.25% less than the national average, earning $40,454 USD per year.

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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 Lenfers
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