Pieterwas Surname
Approximately 201 people bear this surname
Pieterwas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | 187 | 1:203,255 | 27,063 |
| France | 12 | 1:5,535,227 | 269,324 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
The alternate forms: Pieterwaś (1) are calculated separately.
Pieterwas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pieterwas Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pieterwas is most common in Poland. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Pieterwaś. For other possible spellings of Pieterwas click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pieterwas? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,181,191st most frequent last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 36,256,447 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Pieterwas reside; 93 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 93 percent reside in West Slavic Europe.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Poland, where it is held by 187 people, or 1 in 203,255. Besides Poland this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in France, where 6 percent reside and Germany, where 1 percent reside.
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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
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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
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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