ter Brake Surname

887,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 303 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

ter Brake Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

ter Brake Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands2881:58,63610,096
New Zealand81:566,04034,598
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
England11:55,718,059489,080

ter Brake Last Name Facts

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

The surname ter Brake is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name ter Brake? popularity and diffusion

It is the 887,624th most frequent surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,051,307 people. The surname ter Brake occurs mostly in Europe, where 96 percent of ter Brake reside; 95 percent reside in Western Europe and 95 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is held by 288 people, or 1 in 58,636. In The Netherlands ter Brake is primarily found in: Overijssel, where 73 percent reside, North Holland, where 15 percent reside and Gelderland, where 7 percent reside. Excluding The Netherlands this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in New Zealand, where 3 percent reside and Thailand, where 1 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
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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
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