van Achten Surname

4,034,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

van Achten Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Achten Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium171:676,27358,718
Netherlands61:2,814,529101,176
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

van Achten Last Name Facts

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

van Achten is found most frequently in Belgium. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of van Achten.

How Common Is The Last Name van Achten? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 4,034,050th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. The last name van Achten occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of van Achten live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 100 percent live in Germanic Europe.

van Achten is most widely held in Belgium, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 676,273. In Belgium van Achten is mostly found in: Flemish Region, where 100 percent are found. Excluding Belgium this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 25 percent are found and Germany, where 4 percent are found.

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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 van Achten
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