Reefs Surname
Approximately 52 people bear this surname
Reefs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 42 | 1:402,076 | 42,431 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 1:2,789,927 | 129,797 |
Reefs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Reefs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Reefs is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Reefs.
How Common Is The Last Name Reefs? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,689,253rd most frequently held last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 140,145,114 people. The last name Reefs occurs predominantly in Europe, where 88 percent of Reefs live; 87 percent live in Western Europe and 87 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 42 people, or 1 in 402,076. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: Limburg, where 69 percent live and North Brabant, where 31 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 6 percent live and Germany, where 4 percent live.
Reefs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Reefs has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Reefs surname declined 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reeyfs | 91 | 2 | / |
| Reefes | 91 | 2 | / |
| Reef | 89 | 1,772 | / |
| Refs | 89 | 3 | / |
| Roefs | 80 | 1,298 | / |
| Reifs | 80 | 389 | / |
| Reefe | 80 | 221 | / |
| Reeff | 80 | 138 | / |
| Reevs | 80 | 101 | / |
| Reffs | 80 | 96 | / |
| Reebs | 80 | 68 | / |
| Reafs | 80 | 17 | / |
| Riefs | 80 | 11 | / |
| Hreef | 80 | 5 | / |
| Refst | 80 | 4 | / |
| Reefh | 80 | 2 | / |
| Reeft | 80 | 2 | / |
| Rgeef | 80 | 1 | / |
| Reehf | 80 | 1 | / |
| Reyfs | 80 | 1 | / |
| Rheef | 80 | 1 | / |
| Reufs | 80 | 0 | / |
| Rehef | 80 | 0 | / |
| Ruefs | 80 | 0 | / |
| Ref | 75 | 174 | / |
| Reiffs | 73 | 68 | / |
| Reeshw | 73 | 4 | / |
| Roeffs | 73 | 4 | / |
| Refsås | 73 | 3 | / |
| Reheef | 73 | 2 | / |
| Reevws | 73 | 1 | / |
| Reifes | 73 | 1 | / |
| Rieffs | 73 | 1 | / |
| Reeffe | 73 | 0 | / |
| Reif | 67 | 18,431 | / |
| Reeb | 67 | 5,717 | / |
| Rief | 67 | 4,005 | / |
| Refe | 67 | 1,221 | / |
| Reff | 67 | 1,193 | / |
| Rejf | 67 | 175 | / |
| Rebs | 67 | 166 | / |
| Reev | 67 | 138 | / |
| Reft | 67 | 134 | / |
| Reyf | 67 | 131 | / |
| Href | 67 | 38 | / |
| Revs | 67 | 24 | / |
| Reuf | 67 | 21 | / |
| Reaf | 67 | 15 | / |
| Reew | 67 | 14 | / |
| Rzef | 67 | 9 | / |
| Rafs | 67 | 9 | / |
| Rews | 67 | 9 | / |
| Reffsøe | 67 | 4 | / |
| Rhef | 67 | 3 | / |
| Rofs | 67 | 3 | / |
| Refz | 67 | 2 | / |
| Redf | 67 | 2 | / |
| Rewf | 67 | 2 | / |
| Resf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Reifess | 67 | 1 | / |
| Revf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Rifs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Retf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Resv | 67 | 1 | / |
| Rehevsh | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Reefs
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