Sturms Surname

516,587th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 631 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Latvia

Sturms Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sturms Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4941:733,72357,547
Netherlands471:359,30239,900
Latvia391:52,5657,946
Germany281:2,875,195137,699
Belgium91:1,277,40587,318
Brazil61:35,679,055486,536
Chile51:3,523,29539,650
England11:55,718,059489,080
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States791:635,68042,122

The alternate forms: Šturms (1) are calculated separately.

Sturms Last Name Facts

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

The surname Sturms is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Šturms. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sturms? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 516,587th most numerous family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 11,549,201 people. The last name Sturms is mostly found in The Americas, where 80 percent of Sturms live; 78 percent live in North America and 78 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 494 people, or 1 in 733,723. In The United States Sturms is most numerous in: Iowa, where 14 percent reside, West Virginia, where 13 percent reside and Ohio, where 11 percent reside. Excluding The United States this surname is found in 9 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 7 percent reside and Latvia, where 6 percent reside.

Sturms Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Sturms has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Sturms last name grew 625 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Sturms Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Sturms last name are 21.45% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 68.22% registered with the party.

Sturms earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 15.2% less than the national average, earning $36,592 USD 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
  • 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 Sturms
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