Scheilen Surname
Approximately 213 people bear this surname
Scheilen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 132 | 1:127,933 | 19,924 |
| Germany | 78 | 1:1,032,121 | 70,345 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Scheilen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Scheilen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Scheilen is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Scheilen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Scheilen? popularity and diffusion
The last name Scheilen is the 1,133,308th most widely held surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 34,213,831 people. The surname Scheilen occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Scheilen live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Scheilen is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 132 people, or 1 in 127,933. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Limburg, where 82 percent are found, Utrecht, where 11 percent are found and South Holland, where 6 percent are found. Excluding The Netherlands Scheilen exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 37 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.
Scheilen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Scheilen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Scheilen last name expanded 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Scheilen
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