van Helsing Surname

4,116,508th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 23 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
Uruguay

van Helsing Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Helsing Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Paraguay11:7,236,74616,511
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295

van Helsing Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Helsing occurs more in South Africa more than any other country/territory. It can also appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

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

The surname van Helsing is the 4,116,508th most frequent family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 316,849,822 people. van Helsing is predominantly found in The Americas, where 61 percent of van Helsing are found; 30 percent are found in South America and 22 percent are found in South Bantu Africa.

The last name is most common in South Africa, where it is carried by 5 people, or 1 in 10,835,541. In South Africa van Helsing is most frequent in: Western Cape, where 80 percent live and Gauteng, where 20 percent live. Other than South Africa this last name occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Mexico, where 13 percent live and The United States, where 13 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Van-Helsing917/
van Helsen8617/
van Elsen80939/
van D'Helsen7814/
van Elssen7632/
van Gelsen767/
von Holzing7314/
van Elzen7096/
Van-Elsen703/
van Gilsen6735/
von Hilchen5512/

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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 Helsing
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