Portzgen Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Portzgen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 34 | 1:496,682 | 47,398 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
The alternate forms: Pörtzgen (27) are calculated separately.
Portzgen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Portzgen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Portzgen is most common in The Netherlands. It may also be rendered as a variant: Pörtzgen. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Portzgen? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,055,934th most widely held last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 177,745,022 people. Portzgen is predominantly found in Europe, where 90 percent of Portzgen reside; 83 percent reside in Western Europe and 83 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname Portzgen is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is held by 34 people, or 1 in 496,682. In The Netherlands Portzgen is most numerous in: North Brabant, where 38 percent reside, South Holland, where 24 percent reside and Utrecht, where 21 percent reside. Beside The Netherlands it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 10 percent reside and Spain, where 7 percent reside.
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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 Portzgen
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