Louwes Surname
Approximately 691 people bear this surname
Louwes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 656 | 1:25,743 | 4,197 |
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Louwes (11) may also be a first name.
Louwes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Louwes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Louwes occurs most in The Netherlands. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Louwes? popularity and diffusion
The surname Louwes is the 482,070th most commonly used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 10,546,376 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Louwes live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe. Louwes is also the 3,487,849th most commonly held given name globally, borne by 11 people.
The last name is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 656 people, or 1 in 25,743. In The Netherlands Louwes is most prevalent in: Groningen, where 23 percent are found, Drenthe, where 21 percent are found and Friesland, where 12 percent are found. Aside from The Netherlands Louwes occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 1 percent are found and Switzerland, where 1 percent are found.
Louwes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Louwes has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Louwes last name expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Louwes
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