Sauerländer Surname

887,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 303 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Sauerländer Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sauerländer Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany2801:287,51929,928
Switzerland221:373,31428,226
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

The alternate forms: Sauerlander (7) are calculated separately.

Sauerländer Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sauerländer Come From? nationality or country of origin

Sauerländer has its highest incidence in Germany. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Sauerlander. For other potential spellings of Sauerländer click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sauerländer? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 887,624th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 24,051,307 people. The surname Sauerländer is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Sauerländer reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

It is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 280 people, or 1 in 287,519. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 81 percent live, Saxony-Anhalt, where 8 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 7 percent live. Excluding Germany Sauerländer is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 7 percent live and The United States, where 0 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
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  • 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 Sauerländer
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