Meirlaen Surname
Approximately 679 people bear this surname
Meirlaen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 657 | 1:17,499 | 2,682 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Meirlaen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meirlaen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meirlaen is borne by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meirlaen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 488,458th most frequently held family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 10,732,763 people. The surname Meirlaen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Meirlaen reside; 97 percent reside in Western Europe and 83 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequently held in Belgium, where it is held by 657 people, or 1 in 17,499. In Belgium it is mostly concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 86 percent reside, Walloon Region, where 11 percent reside and Brussels Capital Region, where 3 percent reside. Besides Belgium this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 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
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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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