Oelen Surname
Approximately 468 people bear this surname
Oelen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 425 | 1:39,735 | 6,725 |
| Germany | 23 | 1:3,500,237 | 154,763 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Oelen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oelen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oelen is found in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Oelen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 646,966th most prevalent surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 15,571,679 people. The last name Oelen occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Oelen reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 425 people, or 1 in 39,735. In The Netherlands it is primarily found in: Overijssel, where 36 percent reside, Drenthe, where 28 percent reside and South Holland, where 9 percent reside. Not including The Netherlands this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 5 percent reside and Switzerland, where 2 percent reside.
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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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