Riemeyer Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Riemeyer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 64 | 1:1,257,898 | 80,532 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Riemeyer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Riemeyer Come From? nationality or country of origin
Riemeyer is more commonly found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Riemeyer.
How Common Is The Last Name Riemeyer? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,994,173rd most widely held last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 94 percent of Riemeyer reside; 94 percent reside in Western Europe and 94 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most numerous in Germany, where it is borne by 64 people, or 1 in 1,257,898. In Germany it is mostly found in: Lower Saxony, where 41 percent are found, Saxony-Anhalt, where 22 percent are found and Hamburg, where 11 percent are found. Other than Germany Riemeyer is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 22 percent are found and The United States, where 2 percent are found.
Riemeyer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Riemeyer has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Riemeyer last name decreased 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Riemeyer
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