Piest Surname
Approximately 495 people bear this surname
Piest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 303 | 1:55,733 | 9,566 |
| Germany | 117 | 1:688,081 | 52,903 |
| United States | 43 | 1:8,429,278 | 367,833 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Piëst (25) are calculated separately.
Piest Demographics
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Piest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Piest Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Piest is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may appear as: Piëst. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Piest? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 620,716th most frequently used last name globally, borne by around 1 in 14,722,315 people. The surname is primarily found in Europe, where 86 percent of Piest are found; 85 percent are found in Western Europe and 85 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Piest is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 303 people, or 1 in 55,733. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Overijssel, where 44 percent live, Drenthe, where 26 percent live and North Holland, where 8 percent live. Barring The Netherlands this last name is found in 15 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 24 percent live and The United States, where 9 percent live.
Piest Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Piest are 36.56% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 83.33% being registered to vote for the party.
Piest earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 3.34% more than the national average, earning $44,589 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 Piest
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