Ruijer Surname
Approximately 102 people bear this surname
Ruijer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 97 | 1:174,095 | 25,153 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ruijer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ruijer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ruijer is most common in The Netherlands. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ruijer? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ruijer is the 1,828,462nd most frequently occurring family name on earth, held by around 1 in 71,446,529 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Ruijer are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 97 people, or 1 in 174,095. In The Netherlands Ruijer is primarily found in: North Holland, where 43 percent live, Utrecht, where 22 percent live and South Holland, where 20 percent live. Without taking into account The Netherlands it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 1 percent live and Germany, where 1 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 Ruijer
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