Riesewijk Surname
Approximately 132 people bear this surname
Riesewijk Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 131 | 1:128,910 | 20,052 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Riesewijk Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Riesewijk Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Riesewijk is found most in The Netherlands. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Riesewijk click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Riesewijk? popularity and diffusion
The surname Riesewijk is the 1,558,593rd most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 55,208,681 people. The surname Riesewijk occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Riesewijk reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Riesewijk is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 128,910. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: Overijssel, where 66 percent are found, Gelderland, where 8 percent are found and South Holland, where 8 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands Riesewijk is found in one country. It is also common in England, where 1 percent are found.
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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
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