Rahmqvist Surname

1,658,108th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 120 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Sweden
Highest density in:
Sweden

Rahmqvist Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Rahmqvist Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Sweden1171:84,1606,209
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643

Rahmqvist Last Name Facts

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

The surname Rahmqvist is held by more people in Sweden than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Rahmqvist? popularity and diffusion

The surname Rahmqvist is the 1,658,108th most commonly occurring last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 60,729,549 people. The surname Rahmqvist is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Rahmqvist live; 98 percent live in Northern Europe and 98 percent live in Scandinavia.

The surname is most frequent in Sweden, where it is held by 117 people, or 1 in 84,160. In Sweden Rahmqvist is mostly found in: Stockholm County, where 41 percent live, Västernorrland County, where 18 percent live and Västra Götaland County, where 14 percent live. Excluding Sweden this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 1 percent live and Estonia, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ramqvist94188/
Ramhqvist8911/
Ramkvist8296/
Romqvist827/
Rimqvist823/

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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 Rahmqvist
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