Scheffelt Surname
Approximately 33 people bear this surname
Scheffelt Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 24 | 1:3,354,394 | 150,996 |
| Chile | 8 | 1:2,202,059 | 30,910 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Scheffelt Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Scheffelt Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Scheffelt is found in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Scheffelt? popularity and diffusion
The last name Scheffelt is the 3,432,070th most widely held family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 73 percent of Scheffelt live; 73 percent live in Western Europe and 73 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequent in Germany, where it is borne by 24 people, or 1 in 3,354,394. In Germany Scheffelt is most numerous in: Baden-Württemberg, where 79 percent live, Bavaria, where 13 percent live and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 8 percent live. Other than Germany this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Chile, where 24 percent live and Brazil, where 3 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
- 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 Scheffelt
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