Pruijs Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Pruijs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 128 | 1:131,931 | 20,423 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
Pruijs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pruijs Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pruijs is found in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pruijs? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,415,499th most frequently held family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Pruijs live; 91 percent live in Western Europe and 90 percent live in Germanic Europe.
It is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 128 people, or 1 in 131,931. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: North Holland, where 36 percent live, Utrecht, where 27 percent live and South Holland, where 19 percent live. Besides The Netherlands it exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 5 percent live and Canada, where 4 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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