van Groesen Surname

670,508th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 446 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Groesen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Groesen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands4201:40,2086,820
Australia231:1,173,72664,589
England21:27,859,030389,889
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539

van Groesen Last Name Facts

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

van Groesen is found in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

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

This last name is the 670,508th most commonly used family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 16,339,789 people. van Groesen occurs predominantly in Europe, where 95 percent of van Groesen live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 94 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 420 people, or 1 in 40,208. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: North Brabant, where 70 percent are found, Gelderland, where 10 percent are found and South Holland, where 8 percent are found. Excluding The Netherlands it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 5 percent are found and England, where 0 percent are found.

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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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