Polhaus Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Polhaus Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 28 | 1:2,875,195 | 137,699 |
| Denmark | 14 | 1:403,194 | 27,097 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 1:2,954,040 | 135,915 |
Polhaus Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Polhaus Come From? nationality or country of origin
Polhaus is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Polhaus.
How Common Is The Last Name Polhaus? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,909,720th most frequently held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Polhaus live; 62 percent live in Western Europe and 62 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Polhaus is most prevalent in Germany, where it is held by 28 people, or 1 in 2,875,195. In Germany Polhaus is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 89 percent are found, Baden-Württemberg, where 7 percent are found and Hesse, where 4 percent are found. Besides Germany this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Denmark, where 31 percent are found and Poland, where 2 percent are found.
Polhaus Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Polhaus has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Polhaus last name fell 94 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Polhaus
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