Overseth Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Overseth Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Overseth Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States481:7,551,228341,161
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

The alternate forms: Överseth (2) are calculated separately.

Overseth Last Name Facts

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

The surname Overseth occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant: Överseth. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Overseth? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,746,821st most frequent surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Overseth are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 96 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname Overseth is most prevalent in The United States, where it is carried by 48 people, or 1 in 7,551,228. In The United States it is most frequent in: South Dakota, where 29 percent live, Georgia, where 17 percent live and California, where 10 percent live. Aside from The United States it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Chile, where 2 percent live and Switzerland, where 2 percent live.

Overseth Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Overseth has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Overseth last name expanded 686 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Overseth Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Overseth surname are 23.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 70% registered with the party.

Overseth earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 60.29% more than the national average, earning $69,162 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
  • 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 Overseth
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