Maalste Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Maalste Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Maalste Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands321:527,72448,879
Australia171:1,587,98278,599
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049

The alternate forms: Maalsté (21) are calculated separately.

Maalste Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Maalste Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Maalste occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It can appear as: Maalsté. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Maalste? popularity and diffusion

It is the 2,746,821st most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. The last name Maalste occurs mostly in Europe, where 64 percent of Maalste live; 64 percent live in Western Europe and 64 percent live in Germanic Europe.

It is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 527,724. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Limburg, where 38 percent live, North Brabant, where 31 percent live and Overijssel, where 25 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 34 percent live and Singapore, where 2 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
  • 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 Maalste
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