van Gans Surname
Approximately 54 people bear this surname
van Gans Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 53 | 1:318,626 | 37,214 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
van Gans Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Gans Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Gans is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of van Gans.
How Common Is The Last Name van Gans? popularity and diffusion
van Gans is the 2,635,433rd most frequent last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 134,954,554 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of van Gans are found; 100 percent are found in Western Europe and 100 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 53 people, or 1 in 318,626. In The Netherlands van Gans is most frequent in: Friesland, where 32 percent live, Groningen, where 21 percent live and North Holland, where 19 percent live. Besides The Netherlands this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Germany, where 2 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
- 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
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