Postlewait Surname

342,318th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,072 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Postlewait Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Postlewait Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,0581:342,58930,827
Canada61:6,140,932260,641
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
England11:55,718,059489,080
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Nicaragua11:6,021,0908,768
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1911:262,92521,549

Postlewait Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Postlewait Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Postlewait occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Postlewait? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 342,318th most frequent family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 6,798,084 people. The surname Postlewait is mostly found in The Americas, where 81 percent of Postlewait live; 81 percent live in North America and 81 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 1,058 people, or 1 in 342,589. In The United States it is most frequent in: Ohio, where 14 percent reside, Missouri, where 10 percent reside and Washington, where 8 percent reside. Excluding The United States this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 1 percent reside and The Philippines, where 0 percent reside.

Postlewait Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Postlewait has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Postlewait last name rose 554 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 50 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Postlewait Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Postlewait surname are 8.65% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.42% registered with the party.

Postlewait earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 5.91% less than the national average, earning $40,598 USD per year.

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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 Postlewait
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