Poulissen Surname
Approximately 285 people bear this surname
Poulissen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 272 | 1:62,085 | 10,675 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Poulissen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poulissen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Poulissen is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may occur as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Poulissen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 926,175th most widespread last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 25,570,337 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Poulissen are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Poulissen is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 272 people, or 1 in 62,085. In The Netherlands Poulissen is primarily concentrated in: Limburg, where 44 percent live, North Brabant, where 19 percent live and Gelderland, where 11 percent live. Aside from The Netherlands this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 3 percent live and Belgium, where 1 percent live.
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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
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