Nijsen Surname
Approximately 795 people bear this surname
Nijsen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 660 | 1:25,587 | 4,165 |
| Belgium | 107 | 1:107,445 | 16,114 |
| Switzerland | 11 | 1:746,629 | 49,719 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Nijsen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nijsen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nijsen is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nijsen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 432,755th most commonly occurring family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,166,724 people. The last name Nijsen occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Nijsen are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 97 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
It is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 660 people, or 1 in 25,587. In The Netherlands Nijsen is most common in: Limburg, where 32 percent are found, South Holland, where 18 percent are found and North Holland, where 12 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands it exists in 16 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 13 percent are found and Switzerland, where 1 percent are found.
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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
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