Roest Surname
Approximately 5,432 people bear this surname
Roest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 4,366 | 1:3,868 | 362 |
| United States | 325 | 1:1,115,258 | 80,547 |
| Denmark | 185 | 1:30,512 | 3,161 |
| Canada | 115 | 1:320,396 | 29,368 |
| Australia | 92 | 1:293,432 | 25,879 |
| New Zealand | 63 | 1:71,878 | 10,704 |
| Germany | 60 | 1:1,341,758 | 84,137 |
| Belgium | 54 | 1:212,901 | 27,429 |
| South Africa | 51 | 1:1,062,308 | 63,943 |
| France | 28 | 1:2,372,240 | 182,981 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1:483,113 | 34,678 |
| Thailand | 10 | 1:7,063,834 | 426,148 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Faroe Islands | 6 | 1:8,166 | 786 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1:3,054,091 | 90,853 |
| Spain | 3 | 1:15,584,012 | 120,866 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Curaçao | 1 | 1:157,247 | 1,313 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
Roest (16) may also be a first name.
Roest Demographics
Average Roest Salary in
United States
$47,822 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Roest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Roest Come From? nationality or country of origin
Roest is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Roest? popularity and diffusion
Roest is the 88,439th most frequent surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,341,595 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 88 percent of Roest live; 83 percent live in Western Europe and 83 percent live in Germanic Europe. Roest is also the 2,786,762nd most prevalent first name at a global level, borne by 16 people.
The surname Roest is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 4,366 people, or 1 in 3,868. In The Netherlands Roest is mostly concentrated in: South Holland, where 34 percent live, North Holland, where 20 percent live and Utrecht, where 12 percent live. Without taking into account The Netherlands Roest exists in 34 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 6 percent live and Denmark, where 3 percent live.
Roest Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Roest has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 2,955 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Roest Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Roest surname are 13.46% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 60.23% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Roest earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 16.93% more than the national average, earning R 277,872 per year; in United States they earn 10.83% more than the national average, earning $47,822 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.24% more than the national average, earning $56,757 CAD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Roest
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