Rijnieks Surname
Approximately 66 people bear this surname
Rijnieks Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | 58 | 1:35,346 | 5,386 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Rijnieks Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rijnieks Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Rijnieks is most common in Latvia. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Rijnieks? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,352,516th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 110,417,362 people. Rijnieks is mostly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Rijnieks live; 88 percent live in Northern Europe and 88 percent live in Baltic Europe.
The surname Rijnieks is most frequently held in Latvia, where it is carried by 58 people, or 1 in 35,346. In Latvia Rijnieks is primarily concentrated in: Riga Planning Region, where 57 percent reside, Semigallia, where 21 percent reside and Kurzeme Planning Region, where 17 percent reside. Apart from Latvia it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 9 percent reside and Thailand, where 2 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reinieks | 88 | 14 | / |
| Rineks | 86 | 1 | / |
| Reiznieks | 82 | 50 | / |
| Rieznieks | 82 | 6 | / |
| Reiniks | 80 | 95 | / |
| Reineks | 80 | 15 | / |
| Risniks | 80 | 2 | / |
| Reznieks | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reinicks | 75 | 0 | / |
| Reinieck | 75 | 0 | / |
| Reinieke | 75 | 0 | / |
| Rinyek | 71 | 9 | / |
| Ringek | 71 | 2 | / |
| Reniks | 71 | 2 | / |
| Rinjik | 71 | 1 | / |
| Reiniecke | 71 | 0 | / |
| Renicks | 67 | 202 | / |
| Rajnics | 67 | 26 | / |
| Reyniks | 67 | 19 | / |
| Reinics | 67 | 14 | / |
| Rojnyik | 67 | 7 | / |
| Reinyks | 67 | 6 | / |
| Rouniks | 67 | 1 | / |
| Renieke | 67 | 0 | / |
| Reinieg | 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 Rijnieks
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