Nachtegaal Surname
Approximately 230 people bear this surname
Nachtegaal Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 197 | 1:85,722 | 14,232 |
| Germany | 21 | 1:3,833,593 | 163,016 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
Nachtegaal Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nachtegaal Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nachtegaal is most common in The Netherlands. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nachtegaal? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nachtegaal is the 1,076,574th most frequently used surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 31,684,982 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Nachtegaal are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most common in The Netherlands, where it is held by 197 people, or 1 in 85,722. In The Netherlands Nachtegaal is most common in: South Holland, where 32 percent live, Gelderland, where 28 percent live and Utrecht, where 13 percent live. Barring The Netherlands Nachtegaal exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 9 percent live and Switzerland, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nachtegall | 90 | 33 | / |
| Nachtigaal | 90 | 11 | / |
| Nachtegale | 90 | 6 | / |
| Nactegal | 89 | 0 | / |
| Natchtegall | 86 | 3 | / |
| Nachtegalle | 86 | 1 | / |
| Nachtigal | 84 | 1,619 | / |
| Nachtygal | 84 | 128 | / |
| Nategal | 82 | 3 | / |
| Nachtigall | 80 | 4,706 | / |
| Nachtigahl | 80 | 30 | / |
| Nachtigalh | 80 | 1 | / |
| Nachtigail | 80 | 1 | / |
| Nachtigale | 80 | 0 | / |
| Nahtigal | 78 | 562 | / |
| Nahtygal | 78 | 18 | / |
| Nategall | 78 | 13 | / |
| Nachtigalle | 76 | 1 | / |
| Nakhtigal | 74 | 282 | / |
| Nakhtygal | 74 | 30 | / |
| Nachtigál | 74 | 13 | / |
| Nacthigal | 74 | 2 | / |
| Nochtigal | 74 | 1 | / |
| Nathtigal | 74 | 1 | / |
| Nachtigalová | 73 | 274 | / |
| Nachtigalova | 73 | 3 | / |
| Nachtigallová | 70 | 46 | / |
| Nachtigallova | 70 | 3 | / |
| Najtigal | 67 | 1 | / |
| Naxtigal | 67 | 1 | / |
| Nathtigalle | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Nachtegaal
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