Matthijsen Surname
Approximately 167 people bear this surname
Matthijsen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 142 | 1:118,924 | 18,728 |
| Belgium | 21 | 1:547,459 | 51,586 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Matthijsen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matthijsen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matthijsen is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Matthijsen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,338,236th most commonly occurring family name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 43,637,999 people. Matthijsen occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Matthijsen live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 142 people, or 1 in 118,924. In The Netherlands it is most prevalent in: North Holland, where 31 percent live, North Brabant, where 20 percent live and Utrecht, where 18 percent live. Apart from The Netherlands this surname is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 13 percent live and Laos, where 1 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
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