van Burg Surname

830,559th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 333 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Burg Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Burg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands3251:51,9618,917
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

van Burg Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Burg is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of van Burg.

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

The surname van Burg is the 830,559th most commonly held last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 21,884,522 people. The surname van Burg occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of van Burg reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is held by 325 people, or 1 in 51,961. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Zeeland, where 36 percent are found, South Holland, where 31 percent are found and Utrecht, where 9 percent are found. Aside from The Netherlands this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent are found and Belgium, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Burgh9480/
van Burgt9412/
van Bourg944/
von Burg881,193/
van Burk88359/
van Berg88234/
van Borg882/
van Bergh8236/
van Burck8217/
van Burke821/
van Borgh821/
von Burgh820/
von Berg75804/
van Berk75280/
van Bork75126/
van Bürk7531/
van Bark755/
Von-Burg751/
van Bürck7132/
von Bergh7125/
van Berck7115/
von Burke712/
van Verk6335/
von Borck5919/

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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 Burg
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