Potgens Surname

2,605,694th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 55 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Belgium

Potgens Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Potgens Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands311:544,74849,659
Belgium221:522,57550,051
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

The alternate forms: Pötgens (23) are calculated separately.

Potgens Last Name Facts

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

The last name Potgens is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant: Pötgens. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Potgens? popularity and diffusion

The surname Potgens is the 2,605,694th most common surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. Potgens is predominantly found in Europe, where 96 percent of Potgens live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 58 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname Potgens is most numerous in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 31 people, or 1 in 544,748. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Limburg, where 65 percent live, Overijssel, where 19 percent live and South Holland, where 16 percent live. Beside The Netherlands it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 40 percent live and The United States, where 4 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pötgens9523/
Pottgens9346/
Poetgens9312/
Postgens935/
Poettgens8815/
Potiens8663/
Potjens8631/
Pütgens8618/
Pougens8610/
Pöttgens8074/
Potehins808/
Püttgens802/
Pagens7710/
Pogins775/
Patjens71406/
Pouzens7195/
Poigins7128/
Patiens712/
Pozzens711/
Pötgensová711/
Pasteyns6720/
Postains674/
Potience671/
Patiense670/
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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 Potgens
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