van Baar Surname

423,762nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 817 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Baar Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Baar Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands7441:22,6983,642
Australia441:613,53943,545
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
France21:33,211,361423,184
New Zealand21:2,264,16249,210
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
England11:55,718,059489,080
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States31:16,739,561595,711

van Baar Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Baar occurs in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

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

This surname is the 423,762nd most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 8,919,885 people. The surname van Baar occurs mostly in Europe, where 93 percent of van Baar live; 92 percent live in Western Europe and 92 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 744 people, or 1 in 22,698. In The Netherlands van Baar is most common in: North Holland, where 62 percent live, North Brabant, where 14 percent live and South Holland, where 11 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands it occurs in 14 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 5 percent live and Switzerland, where 1 percent live.

van Baar Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of van Baar has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 133 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to van Baar
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