van Douwen Surname
Approximately 37 people bear this surname
van Douwen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 36 | 1:469,088 | 46,010 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
van Douwen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Douwen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Douwen is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name van Douwen? popularity and diffusion
van Douwen is the 3,228,735th most commonly used family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 196,960,700 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 97 percent of van Douwen live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 469,088. In The Netherlands van Douwen is most numerous in: North Holland, where 47 percent live, South Holland, where 22 percent live and North Brabant, where 14 percent live. Outside of The Netherlands it is found in one country. It is also common in Australia, where 3 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
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