Scherpe Surname
Approximately 210 people bear this surname
Scherpe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 167 | 1:482,069 | 41,726 |
| Austria | 28 | 1:304,123 | 34,120 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Scherpe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Scherpe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Scherpe occurs most in Germany. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Scherpe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Scherpe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Scherpe is the 1,144,405th most widely held surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 34,702,600 people. The last name Scherpe occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Scherpe reside; 95 percent reside in Western Europe and 93 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently held in Germany, where it is held by 167 people, or 1 in 482,069. In Germany it is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 22 percent are found and Saxony, where 11 percent are found. Aside from Germany it occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Austria, where 13 percent are found and France, where 2 percent are found.
Scherpe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Scherpe has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname declined 71 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 Scherpe
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