Nohlen Surname
Approximately 185 people bear this surname
Nohlen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 166 | 1:484,973 | 41,888 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
The alternate forms: Nöhlen (27) & Nohlén (6) are calculated separately.
Nohlen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nohlen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nohlen occurs most in Germany. It may also occur as: Nöhlen or Nohlén. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nohlen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,248,410th most commonly used family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 39,392,140 people. The last name Nohlen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Nohlen are found; 95 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Nohlen is most frequently held in Germany, where it is held by 166 people, or 1 in 484,973. In Germany Nohlen is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 79 percent are found, Hamburg, where 11 percent are found and Bavaria, where 4 percent are found. Outside of Germany this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 4 percent are found and Canada, where 2 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nohlen
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