Mehtälä Surname
Approximately 879 people bear this surname
Mehtälä Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 803 | 1:6,845 | 1,073 |
| Sweden | 57 | 1:172,750 | 11,943 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
The alternate forms: Mehtalä (1) are calculated separately.
Mehtälä Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mehtälä Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mehtälä is found most frequently in Finland. It may be found in the variant forms: Mehtalä. For other potential spellings of Mehtälä click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mehtälä? popularity and diffusion
Mehtälä is the 400,040th most frequently used family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 8,290,723 people. Mehtälä is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Mehtälä reside; 100 percent reside in Northern Europe and 98 percent reside in Scandinavia.
This surname is most prevalent in Finland, where it is held by 803 people, or 1 in 6,845. In Finland Mehtälä is most numerous in: Northern Ostrobothnia, where 54 percent live, Uusimaa, where 16 percent live and Lapland, where 8 percent live. Outside of Finland Mehtälä is found in 7 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 6 percent live and Estonia, 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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