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
Piest is found most in The Netherlands. It can also be rendered as a variant: Piëst. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Piest? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 620,716th most commonly used last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 14,722,315 people. It occurs mostly 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 last name Piest is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 303 people, or 1 in 55,733. In The Netherlands Piest is primarily concentrated in: Overijssel, where 44 percent are found, Drenthe, where 26 percent are found and North Holland, where 8 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 24 percent are found and The United States, where 9 percent are found.
Piest Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Piest surname are 36.56% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 83.33% registered to vote for the political 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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