Pehns Surname
Approximately 60 people bear this surname
Pehns Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 58 | 1:1,388,025 | 86,120 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Pehns Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pehns Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pehns is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pehns? popularity and diffusion
The last name Pehns is the 2,483,783rd most commonly used family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 121,459,099 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Pehns reside; 97 percent reside in Western Europe and 97 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 58 people, or 1 in 1,388,025. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: Brandenburg, where 48 percent live, Saxony-Anhalt, where 28 percent live and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 21 percent live. Not including Germany this surname is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 3 percent live.
Pehns Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Pehns has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Pehns surname fell 60 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pens | 89 | 631 | / |
| Phns | 89 | 1 | / |
| Peens | 80 | 2,702 | / |
| Pense | 80 | 1,748 | / |
| Piens | 80 | 1,287 | / |
| Penns | 80 | 146 | / |
| Poens | 80 | 45 | / |
| Pähns | 80 | 7 | / |
| Paens | 80 | 1 | / |
| Phnse | 80 | 1 | / |
| Pensd | 80 | 0 | / |
| Penss | 80 | 0 | / |
| Pns | 75 | 43 | / |
| Peense | 73 | 92 | / |
| Pensch | 73 | 69 | / |
| Pensse | 73 | 10 | / |
| Penshe | 73 | 1 | / |
| Phnnse | 73 | 1 | / |
| Pennse | 73 | 0 | / |
| Penz | 67 | 5,537 | / |
| Pins | 67 | 860 | / |
| Pensova | 67 | 32 | / |
| Pöns | 67 | 3 | / |
| Ppns | 67 | 2 | / |
| Penx | 67 | 2 | / |
| Hpns | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pfns | 67 | 1 | / |
| Phnx | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pnss | 67 | 1 | / |
| Peñs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pems | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pyns | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Pehns
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