van Best Surname

1,967,751st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 90 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Best Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Best Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands781:216,50229,188
Australia61:4,499,284146,780
England51:11,143,612252,590
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

van Best Last Name Facts

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

van Best has its highest incidence in The Netherlands. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

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

The last name is the 1,967,751st most commonly occurring surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 80,972,732 people. van Best occurs predominantly in Europe, where 93 percent of van Best live; 88 percent live in Western Europe and 88 percent live in Germanic Europe.

It is most numerous in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 78 people, or 1 in 216,502. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: North Brabant, where 87 percent reside, South Holland, where 10 percent reside and Gelderland, where 1 percent reside. Outside of The Netherlands it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 7 percent reside and England, where 6 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
  • 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 Best
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