Lühe Surname
Approximately 237 people bear this surname
Lühe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 232 | 1:347,006 | 33,780 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Luhe (124) are calculated separately.
Lühe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lühe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lühe is found in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant: Luhe. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Lühe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,055,483rd most frequent family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 30,749,139 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 99 percent of Lühe are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Lühe is most numerous in Germany, where it is held by 232 people, or 1 in 347,006. In Germany Lühe is primarily found in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 74 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 13 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 8 percent reside. Beside Germany Lühe is found in 4 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 1 percent reside and Norway, where 0 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 Lühe
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