van Bos Surname

1,055,483rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 237 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

van Bos Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Bos Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium1481:77,68012,268
Netherlands741:228,20530,213
South Africa151:3,611,847123,156

van Bos Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Bos is held by more people in Belgium than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of van Bos.

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

This last name is the 1,055,483rd most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 30,749,139 people. van Bos is predominantly found in Europe, where 94 percent of van Bos live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 89 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most frequently held in Belgium, where it is borne by 148 people, or 1 in 77,680. In Belgium van Bos is most prevalent in: Flemish Region, where 93 percent are found and Walloon Region, where 7 percent are found. Excluding Belgium this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 31 percent are found and South Africa, where 6 percent are found.

van Bos Last Name Statistics demography

van Bos earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 71.59% less than the national average, earning R 67,524 per year.

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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 Bos
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