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 appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Louwes? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 482,070th most commonly held family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 10,546,376 people. Louwes occurs mostly 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 first name in the world It is held by 11 people.
Louwes is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is borne 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. Excluding The Netherlands this last name exists 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 occurrence of Louwes has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Louwes last name increased 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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