Plieger Surname
Approximately 446 people bear this surname
Plieger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 299 | 1:56,479 | 9,705 |
| Austria | 48 | 1:177,405 | 22,887 |
| Germany | 22 | 1:3,659,339 | 158,771 |
| France | 17 | 1:3,907,219 | 231,005 |
| Argentina | 14 | 1:3,053,101 | 127,728 |
| Italy | 14 | 1:4,368,335 | 106,343 |
| New Zealand | 13 | 1:348,333 | 27,379 |
| Australia | 12 | 1:2,249,642 | 97,973 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Plieger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plieger Come From? nationality or country of origin
Plieger is most common in The Netherlands. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plieger? popularity and diffusion
Plieger is the 670,508th most common last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 16,339,789 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 90 percent of Plieger are found; 87 percent are found in Western Europe and 83 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is held by 299 people, or 1 in 56,479. In The Netherlands it is most common in: South Holland, where 24 percent live, Gelderland, where 15 percent live and North Holland, where 13 percent live. Barring The Netherlands it is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 11 percent live and Germany, where 5 percent live.
Plieger Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Plieger has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Plieger last name decreased 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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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