van der Puye Surname

5,812,366th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 11 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

van der Puye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van der Puye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England81:6,964,757184,742
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

van der Puye Last Name Facts

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

The last name van der Puye occurs more in England more than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name van der Puye? popularity and diffusion

It is the 5,812,366th most numerous surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 662,504,174 people. The last name van der Puye occurs mostly in Europe, where 73 percent of van der Puye are found; 73 percent are found in Northern Europe and 73 percent are found in British Isles.

The surname is most common in England, where it is held by 8 people, or 1 in 6,964,757. In England it is most prevalent in: Greater London, where 63 percent live and Staffordshire, where 38 percent live. Aside from England this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 9 percent live and South Africa, where 9 percent live.

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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 der Puye
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