Ruurs Surname
Approximately 62 people bear this surname
Ruurs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 58 | 1:291,158 | 35,264 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Ruurs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ruurs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ruurs is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Ruurs.
How Common Is The Last Name Ruurs? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ruurs is the 2,436,415th most commonly held surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 117,541,063 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Ruurs live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 94 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 58 people, or 1 in 291,158. In The Netherlands Ruurs is mostly found in: North Holland, where 79 percent are found, Overijssel, where 10 percent are found and North Brabant, where 9 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands Ruurs exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 5 percent are found and Norway, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rurs | 89 | 5 | / |
| Ruers | 80 | 182 | / |
| Rours | 80 | 75 | / |
| Reurs | 80 | 64 | / |
| Ruhrs | 80 | 23 | / |
| Rurss | 80 | 1 | / |
| Rurse | 80 | 1 | / |
| Rurrs | 80 | 0 | / |
| Raurs | 80 | 0 | / |
| Rursch | 73 | 94 | / |
| Rourss | 73 | 3 | / |
| Rhurst | 73 | 1 | / |
| Rourse | 73 | 1 | / |
| Rirs | 67 | 11 | / |
| Rors | 67 | 8 | / |
| Roers | 60 | 507 | / |
| Riers | 60 | 32 | / |
| Rhors | 60 | 3 | / |
| Rührs | 60 | 2 | / |
| Rorrs | 60 | 0 | / |
| Rihrs | 60 | 0 | / |
| Roors | 60 | 0 | / |
| Rurch | 60 | 0 | / |
| Roehrs | 55 | 1,421 | / |
| Rirsch | 55 | 106 | / |
| Rorsch | 55 | 18 | / |
| Rürsch | 55 | 9 | / |
| Raurch | 55 | 1 | / |
| Rourch | 55 | 1 | / |
| Rource | 55 | 0 | / |
| Roersch | 50 | 128 | / |
| Riersch | 50 | 9 | / |
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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 Ruurs
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