Lurje Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Lurje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 39 | 1:52,565 | 7,946 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Argentina | 11 | 1:3,885,765 | 145,016 |
| Sweden | 11 | 1:895,160 | 66,831 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Lurjé (1) are calculated separately.
Lurje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lurje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lurje is found most frequently in Latvia. It can also occur as a variant: Lurjé. Click here to see other potential spellings of Lurje.
How Common Is The Last Name Lurje? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,894,523rd most commonly occurring family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 75,911,937 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 83 percent of Lurje are found; 68 percent are found in Northern Europe and 55 percent are found in Baltic Europe.
The surname Lurje is most frequently held in Latvia, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 52,565. In Latvia Lurje is most numerous in: Riga Planning Region, where 92 percent live and Kurzeme Planning Region, where 8 percent live. Besides Latvia Lurje is found in 14 countries. It is also common in Estonia, where 13 percent live and Argentina, where 11 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Lurje
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