Streit Surname
Approximately 23,096 people bear this surname
Streit Surname Definition:
(German) Descendant of Streit (battle), a short form of names beginning with Streit, as Stridbert, Striter and Stritmar.
Read More About This SurnameStreit Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 7,454 | 1:10,800 | 1,361 |
| Israel | 4,610 | 1:1,856 | 179 |
| United States | 4,291 | 1:84,470 | 9,562 |
| Switzerland | 2,764 | 1:2,971 | 375 |
| Brazil | 1,445 | 1:148,148 | 5,667 |
| Austria | 798 | 1:10,671 | 1,456 |
| France | 693 | 1:95,848 | 13,998 |
| Czechia | 252 | 1:42,196 | 6,993 |
| Canada | 197 | 1:187,033 | 18,476 |
| Hungary | 129 | 1:76,095 | 7,702 |
| Poland | 70 | 1:542,982 | 51,331 |
| Denmark | 69 | 1:81,807 | 7,949 |
| South Africa | 51 | 1:1,062,308 | 63,943 |
| Australia | 46 | 1:586,863 | 42,409 |
| Romania | 41 | 1:489,704 | 37,604 |
| Chile | 36 | 1:489,346 | 12,617 |
| Argentina | 23 | 1:1,858,409 | 95,340 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Sweden | 16 | 1:615,422 | 45,338 |
| Thailand | 14 | 1:5,045,596 | 363,835 |
| Italy | 12 | 1:5,096,391 | 108,968 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Saint Barthelemy | 1 | 1:9,614 | 134 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 10 | 1:2,437,537 | 68,340 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 279 | 1:179,995 | 16,051 |
The alternate forms: Štreit (20) are calculated separately.
Streit Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(German) Descendant of Streit (battle), a short form of names beginning with Streit, as Stridbert, Striter and Stritmar.
User-submitted Reference
Streit is a German word meaning 'fight', 'quarrel', 'argument', or 'conflict'. It is thought by some to have originated as surname used by soldiers.
- kedna4640Streit Demographics
Average Male Streit Height
177.58 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Streit Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Streit Come From? nationality or country of origin
Streit is held by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as: Štreit. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Streit? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 23,450th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 315,533 people. The last name Streit is mostly found in Europe, where 53 percent of Streit are found; 51 percent are found in Western Europe and 46 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 7,454 people, or 1 in 10,800. In Germany Streit is primarily concentrated in: Bavaria, where 28 percent reside, Baden-Württemberg, where 15 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 12 percent reside. Besides Germany it occurs in 53 countries. It is also found in Israel, where 20 percent reside and The United States, where 19 percent reside.
Streit Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Streit has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Streit surname rose 1,538 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Streit Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Streit are 17.36% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 64.13% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Streit earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 33.1% more than the national average, earning R 316,308 per year; in United States they earn 6.22% more than the national average, earning $45,834 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.44% more than the national average, earning $54,374 CAD per year.
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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
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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 Streit
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