Pötzsch Surname
Approximately 4,210 people bear this surname
Pötzsch Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4,172 | 1:19,297 | 2,551 |
| Austria | 12 | 1:709,620 | 61,025 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Potzsch (48) are calculated separately.
Pötzsch Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pötzsch Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pötzsch has its highest incidence in Germany. It can be found in the variant forms: Potzsch. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pötzsch? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 110,401st most commonly used surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 1,731,009 people. Pötzsch occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Pötzsch reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is held by 4,172 people, or 1 in 19,297. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Saxony, where 42 percent reside, Saxony-Anhalt, where 14 percent reside and Brandenburg, where 10 percent reside. Beside Germany this surname is found in 16 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 0 percent reside and Switzerland, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potzsch | 95 | 48 | / |
| Pötzsche | 93 | 36 | / |
| Pötsch | 92 | 1,713 | / |
| Pötzch | 92 | 11 | / |
| Patzsch | 86 | 408 | / |
| Petzsch | 86 | 315 | / |
| Pfötsch | 86 | 29 | / |
| Poetzsch | 80 | 668 | / |
| Paatzsch | 80 | 106 | / |
| Petsch | 77 | 4,209 | / |
| Patsch | 77 | 1,342 | / |
| Potsch | 77 | 618 | / |
| Pätsch | 77 | 601 | / |
| Pétsch | 77 | 18 | / |
| Patzsh | 77 | 1 | / |
| Pötschová | 75 | 11 | / |
| Pötz | 73 | 1,117 | / |
| Pöch | 73 | 67 | / |
| Paetsch | 71 | 1,595 | / |
| Poetsch | 71 | 983 | / |
| Paatsch | 71 | 244 | / |
| Pfetsch | 71 | 198 | / |
| Peetsch | 71 | 40 | / |
| Peutsch | 71 | 24 | / |
| Petssch | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pöche | 67 | 259 | / |
| Petsh | 67 | 12 | / |
| Patsh | 67 | 2 | / |
| Pfoetsch | 67 | 2 | / |
| Potsh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Patzh | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Pötzsch
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