Pulow Surname

2,293,424th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 69 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Pulow Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Pulow Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany681:1,183,90477,258
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

Pulow Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Pulow Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Pulow (Tibetan: སྤུ་ལོགས་) occurs more in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Pulow.

How Common Is The Last Name Pulow? popularity and diffusion

The surname Pulow is the 2,293,424th most frequently occurring surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 105,616,607 people. The last name Pulow occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Pulow reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most common in Germany, where it is borne by 68 people, or 1 in 1,183,904. In Germany it is mostly found in: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 56 percent reside, Lower Saxony, where 15 percent reside and Saxony-Anhalt, where 15 percent reside. Beside Germany this surname is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Pulow Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Pulow has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Pulow surname contracted 75 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Paulow91113/
Pulowa918/
Poulow911/
Putlow910/
Pullows838/
Paullow831/
Pulov80295/
Pulaw8049/
Polow8027/
Pilow8019/
Puluw808/
Poulouwe77526/
Pollow73331/
Paulov73301/
Pulova73294/
Polowa73288/
Pielow73218/
Pulyov7336/
Phuluw7313/
Pilouw7311/
Puhlov7310/
Puylov7310/
Pulaaw739/
Pullaw737/
Puilov736/
Puloev735/
Philow734/
Paulof733/
Paulaw731/
Poulov731/
Poulof731/
Putlaw731/
Pulotv731/
Puloff731/
Poloow731/
Hpulov731/
Puttellow710/
Paulova67105/
Pauloff6756/
Pholowa6730/
Pulioff6716/
Puilova678/
Philyow678/
Puylova678/
Poulova677/
Puhlova676/
Pullova673/
Pouliof672/
Paullaw671/
Phuulaw671/
Poulouf671/
Puliofs671/
Pulhova671/
Pulhoff671/
Paulovs671/
Puhlovs671/
Puhylov671/
Phillow670/

Pulow Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pulow in the Tibetan language
སྤུ་ལོགས་pulok-

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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 Pulow
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