van Heesen Surname
Approximately 140 people bear this surname
van Heesen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 79 | 1:213,762 | 28,937 |
| Luxembourg | 57 | 1:10,185 | 1,737 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
van Heesen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Heesen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Heesen occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Heesen? popularity and diffusion
The surname van Heesen is the 1,497,948th most commonly occurring family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 52,053,899 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 99 percent of van Heesen live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.
van Heesen is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 79 people, or 1 in 213,762. In The Netherlands it is primarily found in: South Holland, where 44 percent reside, Utrecht, where 18 percent reside and North Holland, where 13 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Luxembourg, where 41 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
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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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