Nedfors Surname

3,730,171st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 28 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sweden
Highest density in:
Sweden

Nedfors Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Nedfors Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sweden251:393,87027,867
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
England11:55,718,059489,080
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Nedfors Last Name Facts

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

Nedfors occurs most in Sweden. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Nedfors? popularity and diffusion

Nedfors is the 3,730,171st most widely held family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Nedfors are found; 93 percent are found in Northern Europe and 89 percent are found in Scandinavia.

This surname is most frequently occurring in Sweden, where it is carried by 25 people, or 1 in 393,870. In Sweden Nedfors is mostly found in: Blekinge County, where 52 percent live, Kronoberg County, where 20 percent live and Stockholm County, where 16 percent live. Beside Sweden this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Canada, where 4 percent live and England, where 4 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Nejdfors933/
Nefors9220/
Nodfors8610/
Ånefors864/
Ångefors805/
Nyfors77263/
Notfors7129/
Nivfors7111/
Näsfors717/
Nittfors6717/

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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 Nedfors
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