Ostmeier Surname

703,644th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 418 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Ostmeier Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ostmeier Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3671:219,36124,670
United States271:13,424,405494,117
England111:5,065,278148,650
Australia91:2,999,522116,751
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Ostmeier Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ostmeier Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Ostmeier is found most frequently in Germany. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Ostmeier.

How Common Is The Last Name Ostmeier? popularity and diffusion

The surname Ostmeier is the 703,644th most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 17,434,320 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 91 percent of Ostmeier live; 88 percent live in Western Europe and 88 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most common in Germany, where it is carried by 367 people, or 1 in 219,361. In Germany Ostmeier is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 51 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 20 percent live and Hamburg, where 11 percent live. Excluding Germany this surname exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 6 percent live and England, where 3 percent live.

Ostmeier Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Ostmeier has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Ostmeier last name expanded 386 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Ostmeier Last Name Statistics demography

Ostmeier earn notably more than the average income. In United States they earn 18.26% more than the national average, earning $51,028 USD per year.

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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 Ostmeier
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