Meritens Surname
Approximately 78 people bear this surname
Meritens Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 77 | 1:555,109 | 40,132 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Méritens (2) are calculated separately.
Meritens Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Meritens Come From? nationality or country of origin
Meritens is found most frequently in Argentina. It may occur as: Méritens. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Meritens? popularity and diffusion
The surname Meritens is the 2,136,387th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 93,430,076 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Meritens are found; 99 percent are found in South America and 99 percent are found in Hispanic Southern America.
Meritens is most frequent in Argentina, where it is carried by 77 people, or 1 in 555,109. In Argentina it is primarily concentrated in: Buenos Aires Province, where 94 percent reside and Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, where 6 percent reside. Apart from Argentina this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in 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
- 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 Meritens
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