Plöger Surname
Approximately 3,824 people bear this surname
Plöger Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3,794 | 1:21,219 | 2,824 |
| Denmark | 15 | 1:376,314 | 25,792 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 85 | 1:590,808 | 39,807 |
The alternate forms: Ploger (366) are calculated separately.
Plöger Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plöger Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Plöger has its highest incidence in Germany. It can occur in the variant forms: Ploger. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plöger? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 120,026th most widely held surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 1,905,739 people. The surname Plöger occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Plöger are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most widespread in Germany, where it is borne by 3,794 people, or 1 in 21,219. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 58 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 15 percent live and Schleswig-Holstein, where 7 percent live. Barring Germany this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in Denmark, where 0 percent live and Switzerland, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ploger | 94 | 366 | / |
| Plögert | 92 | 16 | / |
| Pflöger | 92 | 2 | / |
| Pleger | 83 | 1,562 | / |
| Plager | 83 | 533 | / |
| Pläger | 83 | 27 | / |
| Pléger | 83 | 11 | / |
| Pfleger | 77 | 7,171 | / |
| Ploeger | 77 | 2,745 | / |
| Pleuger | 77 | 518 | / |
| Plogger | 77 | 309 | / |
| Pflager | 77 | 219 | / |
| Phleger | 77 | 128 | / |
| Plaeger | 77 | 63 | / |
| Plogher | 77 | 26 | / |
| Pfléger | 77 | 20 | / |
| Pleoger | 77 | 9 | / |
| Phlager | 77 | 6 | / |
| Plegier | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pfläger | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pluiger | 77 | 1 | / |
| Plagger | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pleeger | 77 | 0 | / |
| Plegher | 77 | 0 | / |
| Plegger | 77 | 0 | / |
| Pfleeger | 71 | 261 | / |
| Pfleuger | 71 | 131 | / |
| Phleeger | 71 | 21 | / |
| Pflegger | 71 | 6 | / |
| Pflaeger | 71 | 5 | / |
| Pilleger | 71 | 2 | / |
| Pillager | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pflleger | 71 | 1 | / |
| Ploegger | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pelleger | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pfluiger | 71 | 0 | / |
| Phlaeger | 71 | 0 | / |
| Phleuger | 71 | 0 | / |
| Phlegher | 71 | 0 | / |
| Pflegher | 71 | 0 | / |
| Plegir | 67 | 2 | / |
| Pellegier | 67 | 1 | / |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Plöger
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