Schentz Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Schentz Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 32 | 1:2,515,796 | 126,826 |
| Sweden | 21 | 1:468,893 | 33,666 |
| Austria | 16 | 1:532,215 | 49,801 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 1:3,347,912 | 150,340 |
Schentz Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schentz Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Schentz is found most in Germany. It may be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Schentz? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,273,756th most commonly held family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 104,107,799 people. Schentz is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Schentz reside; 69 percent reside in Western Europe and 69 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 2,515,796. In Germany Schentz is most common in: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 63 percent reside, Baden-Württemberg, where 34 percent reside and Rhineland-Palatinate, where 3 percent reside. Besides Germany this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 30 percent reside and Austria, where 23 percent reside.
Schentz Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Schentz has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Schentz surname declined 93 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
- 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 Schentz
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