Thunissen Surname
Approximately 134 people bear this surname
Thunissen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 124 | 1:92,715 | 14,331 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
The alternate forms: Thünissen (7) are calculated separately.
Thunissen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Thunissen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Thunissen is borne by more people in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant: Thünissen. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Thunissen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,544,715th most frequently held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 54,384,671 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Thunissen live; 95 percent live in Western Europe and 91 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
The surname is most numerous in Belgium, where it is borne by 124 people, or 1 in 92,715. In Belgium it is most numerous in: Walloon Region, where 98 percent live and Flemish Region, where 2 percent live. Aside from Belgium this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 3 percent live and The Netherlands, where 2 percent live.
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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 Thunissen
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