van Gijzel Surname

1,434,893rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 150 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Gijzel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Gijzel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1471:114,87918,247
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
England11:55,718,059489,080

van Gijzel Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Gijzel is most common in The Netherlands. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

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

The surname is the 1,434,893rd most commonly held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 48,583,639 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of van Gijzel live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.

van Gijzel is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 147 people, or 1 in 114,879. In The Netherlands it is primarily found in: North Brabant, where 55 percent live, North Holland, where 18 percent live and Gelderland, where 10 percent live. Not including The Netherlands it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 1 percent live and Denmark, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Gijel951/
van Gijsel90473/
van Gijssel86270/
van Geijsel861/
van Gyzel8418/
van Geijl8411/
van Gisel840/
van Geyzel8067/
van Giesel802/
van Zijl784,471/
van Gysel74927/
van Zeijl74671/
van Zijll74172/
van Zijyl741/
van Zuijl741/
van Gesel740/
van Geysel7023/
van Ghysel701/
von Zijl6715/
Van-Gysel637/

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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 Gijzel
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