Ligges Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Ligges Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 83 | 1:969,945 | 67,438 |
| Austria | 26 | 1:327,517 | 36,002 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Ligges Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ligges Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ligges occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ligges? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ligges is the 1,746,159th most commonly held surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 66,250,417 people. The surname Ligges is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Ligges reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 83 people, or 1 in 969,945. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 75 percent reside, Berlin, where 12 percent reside and Lower Saxony, where 10 percent reside. Not including Germany this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 24 percent reside and Belgium, where 1 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
- 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 Ligges
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