Prieels Surname
Approximately 170 people bear this surname
Prieels Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 163 | 1:70,532 | 11,263 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
The alternate forms: Priëels (17) & Prieëls (1) are calculated separately.
Prieels Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Prieels Come From? nationality or country of origin
Prieels is more commonly found in Belgium than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Priëels or Prieëls. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Prieels? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,321,499th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 42,867,917 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Prieels live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 68 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Prieels is most frequently used in Belgium, where it is borne by 163 people, or 1 in 70,532. In Belgium it is primarily concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 71 percent live, Walloon Region, where 28 percent live and Brussels Capital Region, where 2 percent live. Barring Belgium this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent live and France, 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
- 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 Prieels
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