van Douwe Surname

3,055,934th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 41 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Douwe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Douwe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands211:804,15159,518
South Africa201:2,708,885106,094

van Douwe Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Douwe is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

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

van Douwe is the 3,055,934th most widespread surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 177,745,022 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 51 percent of van Douwe live; 51 percent live in Western Europe and 51 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 21 people, or 1 in 804,151. In The Netherlands van Douwe is primarily found in: Flevoland, where 38 percent are found, North Holland, where 33 percent are found and South Holland, where 24 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands it occurs in one country. It is also found in South Africa, where 49 percent are found.

van Douwe Last Name Statistics demography

van Douwe earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 93.92% more than the national average, earning R 460,824 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
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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 Douwe
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