Sellmeier Surname

758,524th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 377 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Sellmeier Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sellmeier Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany3761:214,11024,191
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:25,109,342694,541

Sellmeier Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sellmeier Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Sellmeier is more frequently found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sellmeier? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 758,524th most prevalent family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 19,330,361 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Sellmeier live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 100 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name Sellmeier is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 376 people, or 1 in 214,110. In Germany Sellmeier is most frequent in: Bavaria, where 66 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent reside and Lower Saxony, where 9 percent reside. Without taking into account Germany it exists in one country. It is also common in Norway, where 0 percent reside.

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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 Sellmeier
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