Nestors Surname
Approximately 9 people bear this surname
Nestors Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nestors (37) may also be a first name.
Nestors Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nestors Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nestors (Russian: Несторс) occurs most in Latvia. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Nestors.
How Common Is The Last Name Nestors? popularity and diffusion
Nestors is the 6,360,413th most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 809,727,324 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 56 percent of Nestors are found; 44 percent are found in Northern Europe and 22 percent are found in Baltic Europe. It is also the 1,688,769th most frequently occurring first name globally It is held by 37 people.
It is most frequently occurring in Latvia, where it is borne by 2 people, or 1 in 1,025,023. In Latvia Nestors is mostly concentrated in: Kurzeme Planning Region, where 100 percent live. Aside from Latvia Nestors occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 11 percent live and England, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nestors Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nestors in the Russian language | ||
| Несторс | nestors | - |
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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 Nestors
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