van der Wees Surname

542,751st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 591 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Suriname

van der Wees Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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van der Wees Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands4921:34,3245,739
Australia371:729,61448,196
Suriname191:29,0855,642
France181:3,690,151224,666
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Thailand51:14,127,669603,945
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
Greece41:2,769,948101,568
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
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van der Wees Last Name Facts

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

van der Wees is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

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

This surname is the 542,751st most commonly held family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 12,330,873 people. The last name is primarily found in Europe, where 89 percent of van der Wees are found; 88 percent are found in Western Europe and 85 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

van der Wees is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 492 people, or 1 in 34,324. In The Netherlands van der Wees is most frequent in: South Holland, where 46 percent live, North Holland, where 17 percent live and Utrecht, where 9 percent live. Besides The Netherlands van der Wees exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 6 percent live and Suriname, where 3 percent live.

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van der Weehe8845/
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van der Weijst85107/
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van der Vis78695/
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Van-Der-Wee786/
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von der Weid75163/
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von der Wehd751/
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van der Va731/
van der Vecht72449/
van der Waaij72144/
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van der Bij701,425/
von der Bey707/
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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 der Wees
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