Poetsma Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Poetsma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 40 | 1:422,179 | 43,576 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Poetsma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poetsma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Poetsma occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Poetsma? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,944,094th most frequently used last name globally It is held by around 1 in 165,626,044 people. The last name Poetsma is mostly found in Europe, where 91 percent of Poetsma live; 91 percent live in Western Europe and 91 percent live in Germanic Europe.
It is most prevalent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 422,179. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Overijssel, where 70 percent are found, Flevoland, where 13 percent are found and Gelderland, where 13 percent are found. Apart from The Netherlands this surname exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 2 percent are found and Canada, 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
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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 Poetsma
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