Rutze Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Rutze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 24 | 1:703,632 | 56,027 |
| Belgium | 17 | 1:676,273 | 58,718 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Rütze (92) are calculated separately.
Rutze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rutze Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Rutze is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Rütze. Click here for other potential spellings of Rutze.
How Common Is The Last Name Rutze? popularity and diffusion
The last name Rutze is the 2,909,720th most commonly used family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 161,945,465 people. The surname Rutze occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of Rutze live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 58 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 24 people, or 1 in 703,632. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: Utrecht, where 67 percent are found, Zeeland, where 25 percent are found and Groningen, where 4 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 38 percent are found and Australia, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Rutze
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