Schoonwater Surname
Approximately 179 people bear this surname
Schoonwater Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 153 | 1:110,374 | 17,676 |
| Switzerland | 12 | 1:684,410 | 46,196 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Schoonwater Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schoonwater Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Schoonwater is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Schoonwater? popularity and diffusion
The last name Schoonwater is the 1,276,805th most frequently held surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 40,712,547 people. The last name Schoonwater is primarily found in Europe, where 98 percent of Schoonwater live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 93 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most prevalent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 153 people, or 1 in 110,374. In The Netherlands Schoonwater is primarily found in: Limburg, where 31 percent are found, Gelderland, where 27 percent are found and South Holland, where 23 percent are found. Barring The Netherlands this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Switzerland, where 7 percent are found and France, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schonwater | 95 | 0 | / |
| Sonwater | 84 | 0 | / |
| Schonwetter | 82 | 139 | / |
| Sonwate | 78 | 19 | / |
| Schoinwetter | 78 | 1 | / |
| Schonweitter | 78 | 1 | / |
| Shonwetter | 76 | 3 | / |
| Soonbate | 74 | 3 | / |
| Chanwatee | 70 | 1 | / |
| Sonwattie | 70 | 1 | / |
| Shanwatie | 70 | 1 | / |
| Saunwater | 70 | 0 | / |
| Sonvate | 67 | 12 | / |
| Sonwati | 67 | 5 | / |
| Sonbate | 67 | 4 | / |
| Somwate | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Schoonwater
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