van Heijster Surname

1,022,958th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 247 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Heijster Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Heijster Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands2421:69,78211,887
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915

van Heijster Last Name Facts

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

The last name van Heijster is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

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

The surname is the 1,022,958th most prevalent surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 29,504,234 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 99 percent of van Heijster are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The last name van Heijster is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 242 people, or 1 in 69,782. In The Netherlands van Heijster is primarily found in: Limburg, where 45 percent live, North Brabant, where 30 percent live and Gelderland, where 9 percent live. Besides The Netherlands this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 0 percent live and Belgium, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Search for Another Surname

The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data

By signing up to the mailing list you will only receive emails specifically about name reference on Forebears and your information will not be distributed to 3rd parties.

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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to van Heijster
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis