Potgens Surname
Approximately 55 people bear this surname
Potgens Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 31 | 1:544,748 | 49,659 |
| Belgium | 22 | 1:522,575 | 50,051 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
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 surname Potgens occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Pötgens. For other possible spellings of Potgens click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Potgens? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,605,694th most frequent family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Potgens are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 58 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name Potgens is most numerous in The Netherlands, where it is held by 31 people, or 1 in 544,748. In The Netherlands Potgens is primarily concentrated in: Limburg, where 65 percent are found, Overijssel, where 19 percent are found and South Holland, where 16 percent are found. Besides The Netherlands this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 40 percent are found and The United States, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pötgens | 95 | 23 | / |
| Pottgens | 93 | 46 | / |
| Poetgens | 93 | 12 | / |
| Postgens | 93 | 5 | / |
| Poettgens | 88 | 15 | / |
| Potiens | 86 | 63 | / |
| Potjens | 86 | 31 | / |
| Pütgens | 86 | 18 | / |
| Pougens | 86 | 10 | / |
| Pöttgens | 80 | 74 | / |
| Potehins | 80 | 8 | / |
| Püttgens | 80 | 2 | / |
| Pagens | 77 | 10 | / |
| Pogins | 77 | 5 | / |
| Patjens | 71 | 406 | / |
| Pouzens | 71 | 95 | / |
| Poigins | 71 | 28 | / |
| Patiens | 71 | 2 | / |
| Pozzens | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pötgensová | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pasteyns | 67 | 20 | / |
| Postains | 67 | 4 | / |
| Potience | 67 | 1 | / |
| Patiense | 67 | 0 | / |
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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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