Niekel Surname
Approximately 149 people bear this surname
Niekel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 94 | 1:179,651 | 25,733 |
| Germany | 22 | 1:3,659,339 | 158,771 |
| Mexico | 8 | 1:15,515,776 | 47,773 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Poland | 7 | 1:5,429,821 | 146,768 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Niekel (23) may also be a first name.
Niekel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Niekel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Niekel is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Niekel click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Niekel? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,441,361st most frequently used surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 48,909,704 people. The last name Niekel is mostly found in Europe, where 86 percent of Niekel live; 80 percent live in Western Europe and 79 percent live in Germanic Europe. Niekel is also the 2,239,265th most frequent forename worldwide, borne by 23 people.
It is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 179,651. In The Netherlands Niekel is most numerous in: North Holland, where 65 percent live, North Brabant, where 17 percent live and Flevoland, where 5 percent live. Outside of The Netherlands Niekel is found in 12 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 15 percent live and Mexico, where 5 percent live.
Niekel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Niekel has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Niekel last name fell 86 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Niekel
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