Messengen Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Messengen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Messengen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France151:4,428,181244,602
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States51:10,043,737422,899

Messengen Last Name Facts

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

Messengen occurs most in France. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Messengen? popularity and diffusion

Messengen is the 4,908,606th most prevalent family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. Messengen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 94 percent of Messengen reside; 94 percent reside in Western Europe and 94 percent reside in Gallo-Europe.

The last name is most common in France, where it is borne by 15 people, or 1 in 4,428,181. In France Messengen is most numerous in: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 53 percent reside and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 47 percent reside. Without taking into account France this surname exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 6 percent reside.

Messengen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Messengen has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname contracted 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Messensen892/
Moeszengen840/
Mosengen8227/
Menengen8223/
Mehengen822/
Masengen821/
Mesgen8083/
Missingen781/
Meisgen7511/
Messegnine742/
Maissengne741/
Missenhein741/
Meinssen7114/
Meningen7112/
Mesingem711/
Meanngen711/
Mechenene67220/
Misgen67161/
Mäsgen6752/
Meiningen6745/
Mishenene6719/

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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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Messengen
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