Prossel Surname
Approximately 77 people bear this surname
Prossel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 58 | 1:1,388,025 | 86,120 |
| France | 12 | 1:5,535,227 | 269,324 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Prössel (59) are calculated separately.
Prossel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Prossel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Prossel is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It can appear as: Prössel. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Prossel? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,152,526th most commonly used family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 94,643,453 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of Prossel live; 91 percent live in Western Europe and 75 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Prossel is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 58 people, or 1 in 1,388,025. In Germany Prossel is mostly concentrated in: Bavaria, where 98 percent are found and Baden-Württemberg, where 2 percent are found. Excluding Germany this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in France, where 16 percent are found and Poland, where 5 percent are found.
Prossel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Prossel has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Prossel last name fell 86 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Prossel
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