Looijs Surname
Approximately 83 people bear this surname
Looijs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 79 | 1:213,762 | 28,937 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Looijs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Looijs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Looijs is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Looijs? popularity and diffusion
The surname Looijs is the 2,061,309th most commonly occurring last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 87,801,758 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Looijs are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Looijs is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is held by 79 people, or 1 in 213,762. In The Netherlands Looijs is primarily concentrated in: Gelderland, where 46 percent live, Limburg, where 23 percent live and North Brabant, where 13 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 2 percent live and Belgium, where 1 percent live.
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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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