Ritgen Surname
Approximately 71 people bear this surname
Ritgen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 59 | 1:1,364,499 | 85,126 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ritgen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ritgen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ritgen is found in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ritgen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,255,512th most commonly occurring family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 102,641,492 people. The surname Ritgen is mostly found in Europe, where 85 percent of Ritgen live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 85 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 59 people, or 1 in 1,364,499. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 39 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 15 percent live and Bavaria, where 12 percent live. Not including Germany this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 11 percent live and South Africa, where 3 percent live.
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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 Ritgen
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