van Boer Surname
Approximately 23 people bear this surname
van Boer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 14 | 1:1,206,227 | 70,951 |
| United States | 8 | 1:45,307,367 | 917,113 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
van Boer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Boer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Boer is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Boer? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,116,508th most frequently held surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 316,849,822 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 65 percent of van Boer are found; 61 percent are found in Western Europe and 61 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 1,206,227. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: South Holland, where 57 percent are found, North Brabant, where 36 percent are found and North Holland, where 7 percent are found. Beside The Netherlands this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 35 percent are found and Portugal, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Bower | 94 | 2 | / |
| van Bor | 93 | 1 | / |
| van Buer | 88 | 54 | / |
| van Baer | 88 | 40 | / |
| van Beer | 88 | 3 | / |
| von Boer | 88 | 3 | / |
| van Boed | 88 | 1 | / |
| van Voer | 88 | 0 | / |
| Van Woert | 82 | 71 | / |
| van Beard | 82 | 1 | / |
| van Baere | 82 | 1 | / |
| von Bouer | 82 | 0 | / |
| von Bower | 82 | 0 | / |
| van Bauer | 82 | 0 | / |
| van Bur | 80 | 0 | / |
| von Baer | 75 | 37 | / |
| Van-Beer | 75 | 6 | / |
| van Buur | 75 | 1 | / |
| van Bure | 75 | 0 | / |
| van Baest | 71 | 104 | / |
| von Bauer | 71 | 33 | / |
| van Waert | 71 | 26 | / |
| van Buurt | 71 | 11 | / |
| von Bayer | 71 | 4 | / |
| von Baehr | 71 | 2 | / |
| von Bajor | 71 | 1 | / |
| van Vuur | 63 | 9 | / |
| von Baur | 63 | 4 | / |
| von Buhr | 63 | 3 | / |
| von Burt | 63 | 1 | / |
| von Burd | 63 | 0 | / |
| von Waheer | 56 | 1 | / |
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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 van Boer
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis