Prüß Surname
Approximately 1,588 people bear this surname
Prüß Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,587 | 1:50,728 | 6,620 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
The alternate forms: Prü (21) are calculated separately.
Prüß Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Prüß Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Prüß is found most frequently in Germany. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Prü. For other potential spellings of Prüß click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Prüß? popularity and diffusion
The surname Prüß is the 249,873rd most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 4,589,135 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Prüß reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 1,587 people, or 1 in 50,728. In Germany it is most numerous in: Schleswig-Holstein, where 44 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 13 percent reside and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Germany it occurs in one country. It is also found in Ghana, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Prüß
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