Pieters Surname
Approximately 33,154 people bear this surname
Pieters Surname User-submission:
The surname Pieters means 'son of Pieter'.
Pieters Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 14,213 | 1:3,812 | 509 |
| Netherlands | 6,518 | 1:2,591 | 183 |
| Belgium | 6,205 | 1:1,853 | 114 |
| Namibia | 1,471 | 1:1,638 | 225 |
| United States | 1,363 | 1:265,927 | 25,042 |
| France | 1,128 | 1:58,885 | 7,903 |
| Indonesia | 545 | 1:242,659 | 22,279 |
| Canada | 260 | 1:141,714 | 14,582 |
| Germany | 229 | 1:351,552 | 34,059 |
| Australia | 221 | 1:122,152 | 13,424 |
| England | 176 | 1:316,580 | 23,688 |
| Aruba | 125 | 1:828 | 114 |
| Venezuela | 125 | 1:241,633 | 6,087 |
| New Zealand | 66 | 1:68,611 | 10,369 |
| Zimbabwe | 49 | 1:315,066 | 31,156 |
| Guyana | 48 | 1:15,880 | 2,122 |
| Dominican Republic | 46 | 1:226,803 | 8,136 |
| Spain | 44 | 1:1,062,546 | 38,570 |
| Argentina | 34 | 1:1,257,159 | 73,489 |
| Curaçao | 33 | 1:4,765 | 122 |
| Thailand | 31 | 1:2,278,656 | 255,572 |
| Switzerland | 26 | 1:315,881 | 24,844 |
| Suriname | 26 | 1:21,254 | 4,689 |
| New Caledonia | 21 | 1:13,153 | 3,514 |
| United Arab Emirates | 15 | 1:610,818 | 23,687 |
| Austria | 15 | 1:567,696 | 52,281 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| Sweden | 11 | 1:895,160 | 66,831 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Isle of Man | 6 | 1:14,304 | 3,169 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Mexico | 4 | 1:31,031,551 | 63,627 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 1:1,593,356 | 8,177 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Nepal | 3 | 1:9,493,652 | 16,132 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Guatemala | 3 | 1:5,360,889 | 8,925 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 | 1:99,171 | 2,137 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 10 | 1:2,437,537 | 68,340 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20 | 1:2,510,934 | 119,518 |
The alternate forms: Piéters (1) & Pïeters (1) are calculated separately.
Pieters (341) may also be a first name.
Pieters Surname Meaning
Pieters Demographics
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Pieters Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pieters Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pieters is carried by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It can also appear as: Piéters or Pïeters. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Pieters? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 16,752nd most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 219,809 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 48 percent of Pieters are found; 47 percent are found in Southern Africa and 47 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Pieters is also the 472,872nd most widespread first name worldwide, held by 341 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in South Africa, where it is held by 14,213 people, or 1 in 3,812. In South Africa Pieters is most frequent in: Western Cape, where 35 percent are found, Gauteng, where 20 percent are found and Northern Cape, where 10 percent are found. Besides South Africa this last name is found in 76 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 20 percent are found and Belgium, where 19 percent are found.
Pieters Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Pieters has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 6,815 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 1,760 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Pieters Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Pieters surname are 13.49% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 60.26% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Pieters earn in different countries varies notably. In Norway they earn 2.55% less than the national average, earning 337,265 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 21.74% more than the national average, earning R 289,296 per year; in United States they earn 13.29% more than the national average, earning $48,883 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.73% less than the national average, earning $48,328 CAD per year.
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Pieters Reference & Research
Peters DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.
Peters FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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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
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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
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