Pleijter Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Pleijter Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 56 | 1:301,557 | 35,980 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Pleijter Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pleijter Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pleijter occurs most in The Netherlands. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Pleijter click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pleijter? popularity and diffusion
The last name Pleijter is the 2,506,728th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Pleijter are found; 95 percent are found in Western Europe and 95 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 56 people, or 1 in 301,557. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: Gelderland, where 68 percent are found, South Holland, where 14 percent are found and Zeeland, where 11 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent are found and Brazil, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Pleijter
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