Stöwer Surname
Approximately 528 people bear this surname
Stöwer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 521 | 1:154,521 | 18,468 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
The alternate forms: Stower (937) are calculated separately.
Stöwer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Stöwer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Stöwer is held by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Stower. For other potential spellings of Stöwer click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Stöwer? popularity and diffusion
The surname Stöwer is the 590,896th most widespread last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 13,802,170 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Stöwer live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Stöwer is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 521 people, or 1 in 154,521. In Germany Stöwer is mostly found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent reside, Schleswig-Holstein, where 16 percent reside and Lower Saxony, where 10 percent reside. Other than Germany Stöwer occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Poland, where 1 percent reside and Switzerland, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stower | 94 | 937 | / |
| Stöver | 83 | 3,632 | / |
| Stewer | 83 | 10 | / |
| Stawer | 83 | 10 | / |
| Stoewer | 77 | 351 | / |
| Steuwer | 77 | 112 | / |
| Stowier | 77 | 1 | / |
| Stowerr | 77 | 1 | / |
| Stowejr | 77 | 1 | / |
| Stawwer | 77 | 0 | / |
| Stover | 67 | 33,557 | / |
| Staver | 67 | 4,445 | / |
| Stever | 67 | 2,848 | / |
| Stäber | 67 | 60 | / |
| Stevir | 67 | 1 | / |
| Stuiver | 62 | 1,268 | / |
| Stoever | 62 | 887 | / |
| Steever | 62 | 642 | / |
| Steuver | 62 | 72 | / |
| Stovier | 62 | 12 | / |
| Steveer | 62 | 3 | / |
| Stavier | 62 | 1 | / |
| Stevier | 62 | 1 | / |
| Sstover | 62 | 0 | / |
| Staever | 62 | 0 | / |
| Sthaveer | 57 | 1 | / |
| Stavir | 50 | 1 | / |
| Stavyr | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Stöwer
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