Rindtorff Surname

5,587,209th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 12 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Norway

Rindtorff Surname User-submission:

The Rindtorff surname derives from a dialectal version with umlaut of runddorf, composed of rund, meaning 'round', and dorf, meaning 'village', 'settlement'. Current High German standard word Dorf was often written with dialectal variants like torf, torff before written High German got standardized in the 19th century.

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Rindtorff 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
Germany111:7,318,678235,042
Norway11:5,142,286129,201

Rindtorff Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

The Rindtorff surname derives from a dialectal version with umlaut of runddorf, composed of rund, meaning 'round', and dorf, meaning 'village', 'settlement'. Current High German standard word Dorf was often written with dialectal variants like torf, torff before written High German got standardized in the 19th century. But family names derived from names of places remained unchanged.

Round villages, now called Rundlinge, were a typical form of West Slavic settlements in what today is eastern Germany.

- danebod
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Rindtorff Last Name Facts

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

The surname Rindtorff is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Rindtorff? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 5,587,209th most numerous surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 607,295,493 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Rindtorff reside; 92 percent reside in Western Europe and 92 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

Rindtorff is most numerous in Germany, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 7,318,678. In Germany it is most numerous in: Hesse, where 73 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 9 percent live and Lower Saxony, where 9 percent live. Apart from Germany this surname exists in one country. It is also common in Norway, where 8 percent live.

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