van Echten Surname
Approximately 193 people bear this surname
van Echten Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 128 | 1:131,931 | 20,423 |
| New Zealand | 36 | 1:125,787 | 15,451 |
| Germany | 16 | 1:5,031,591 | 189,895 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
van Echten Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Echten Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Echten is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Echten? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,214,709th most commonly occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 37,759,305 people. The last name van Echten is predominantly found in Europe, where 75 percent of van Echten reside; 75 percent reside in Western Europe and 75 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname van Echten is most prevalent in The Netherlands, where it is held by 128 people, or 1 in 131,931. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Overijssel, where 26 percent live, South Holland, where 23 percent live and Drenthe, where 21 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands van Echten occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in New Zealand, where 19 percent live and Germany, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Hechten | 95 | 1 | / |
| van Ochten | 90 | 262 | / |
| van Achten | 90 | 24 | / |
| van Eten | 89 | 4 | / |
| van Etten | 84 | 2,762 | / |
| van Eeten | 84 | 501 | / |
| van Esten | 84 | 2 | / |
| van Etien | 84 | 1 | / |
| van Eaten | 84 | 1 | / |
| van Hetten | 80 | 195 | / |
| von Achten | 80 | 17 | / |
| van Hesten | 80 | 2 | / |
| van Geyten | 80 | 2 | / |
| van Heuten | 80 | 0 | / |
| van Estten | 80 | 0 | / |
| van Eetten | 80 | 0 | / |
| van Iten | 78 | 31 | / |
| van Geijten | 76 | 7 | / |
| van Hysteen | 76 | 1 | / |
| Van-Etten | 74 | 4 | / |
| van Uyten | 74 | 3 | / |
| van Hetem | 74 | 1 | / |
| van Eetem | 74 | 1 | / |
| van Oyten | 74 | 1 | / |
| Van-Eeten | 74 | 1 | / |
| van Estin | 74 | 0 | / |
| van Ettin | 74 | 0 | / |
| van Eatin | 74 | 0 | / |
| von Esten | 74 | 0 | / |
| van Huysteen | 73 | 44 | / |
| van Hyssteen | 73 | 1 | / |
| van Huyssteen | 70 | 4,138 | / |
| van Hüyssteen | 70 | 1 | / |
| van Heyssteen | 70 | 1 | / |
| von Hetten | 70 | 0 | / |
| van Etting | 70 | 0 | / |
| van Item | 67 | 47 | / |
| von Huyssteen | 61 | 1 | / |
| van Uiting | 60 | 1 | / |
| van Uijting | 57 | 1 | / |
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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 Echten
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