Seears Surname
Approximately 295 people bear this surname
Seears Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 265 | 1:101,871 | 11,478 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20 | 1:1,218,768 | 44,985 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
Seears Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seears Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Seears is most common in Australia. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Seears? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 904,049th most frequently held surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 24,703,545 people. The surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 90 percent of Seears live; 90 percent live in Australasia and 90 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.
The surname Seears is most commonly held in Australia, where it is borne by 265 people, or 1 in 101,871. In Australia it is primarily found in: New South Wales, where 62 percent are found, Victoria, where 10 percent are found and South Australia, where 9 percent are found. Not including Australia it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 4 percent are found and Malaysia, where 4 percent are found.
Seears Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Seears has changed over time. In England the number of people who held the Seears last name fell 35 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it fell 20 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Seears Reference & Research
Sears DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.
Sears FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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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 Seears
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