van Clef Surname
Approximately 14 people bear this surname
van Clef Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:30,204,911 | 765,334 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
van Clef Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Clef Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Clef is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Clef? popularity and diffusion
The last name van Clef is the 5,213,395th most frequently used last name on earth, held by around 1 in 520,538,994 people. The last name van Clef occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 86 percent of van Clef live; 86 percent live in North America and 86 percent live in Anglo-North America.
This last name is most commonly used in The United States, where it is held by 12 people, or 1 in 30,204,911. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: New Jersey, where 75 percent reside and New York, where 25 percent reside. Aside from The United States it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 7 percent reside and Belgium, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Cleef | 94 | 1,210 | / |
| van Clief | 94 | 76 | / |
| van Cleaf | 94 | 48 | / |
| van Cleff | 94 | 9 | / |
| van Cleft | 94 | 1 | / |
| van Cleif | 94 | 0 | / |
| van Cleeff | 89 | 88 | / |
| van Cleefs | 89 | 1 | / |
| van Cleefe | 89 | 0 | / |
| von Clef | 88 | 5 | / |
| van Clif | 88 | 1 | / |
| van Clev | 88 | 1 | / |
| van Clew | 88 | 0 | / |
| van Kleef | 82 | 3,657 | / |
| von Cleef | 82 | 24 | / |
| van Cliff | 82 | 13 | / |
| van Cleev | 82 | 7 | / |
| van Cleav | 82 | 2 | / |
| Van-Cleef | 82 | 2 | / |
| van Cloif | 82 | 0 | / |
| von Cleff | 82 | 0 | / |
| van Kleeff | 78 | 270 | / |
| van Kleefe | 78 | 1 | / |
| van Cliffe | 78 | 0 | / |
| van Kelf | 75 | 22 | / |
| van Klev | 75 | 6 | / |
| van Zelf | 75 | 3 | / |
| Van-Cliff | 71 | 18 | / |
| Van-Kleef | 71 | 6 | / |
| van Klift | 71 | 1 | / |
| van Zelft | 71 | 1 | / |
| Van-Kleyf | 71 | 1 | / |
| Van-Kleeff | 67 | 3 | / |
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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 Clef
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