Where Does The Last Name Stachan Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

The last name Stachan is more commonly found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Stachań. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Stachan? ^{popularity and diffusion}

The surname is the 2,605,694^th most common family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 84 percent of Stachan live; 60 percent live in Western Europe and 60 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is carried by 33 people, or 1 in 2,439,559. In Germany it is mostly concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 67 percent are found and Hamburg, where 33 percent are found. Aside from Germany this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Scotland, where 16 percent are found and Australia, where 7 percent are found.

Stachan Family Population Trend ^{historical fluctuation}

The prevalency of Stachan has changed over time. In Scotland the number of people bearing the Stachan surname contracted 25 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it rose 300 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 83 percent between 1881 and 2014.