van Hes Surname
Approximately 176 people bear this surname
van Hes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 170 | 1:99,336 | 16,160 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
van Hes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Hes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname van Hes occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Hes? popularity and diffusion
The surname van Hes is the 1,290,735th most frequent surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 41,406,511 people. The last name van Hes is primarily found in Europe, where 98 percent of van Hes live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most common in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 170 people, or 1 in 99,336. In The Netherlands van Hes is mostly concentrated in: Friesland, where 41 percent live, South Holland, where 11 percent live and Flevoland, where 11 percent live. Besides The Netherlands this surname occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 1 percent live and Canada, where 1 percent live.
van Hes Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of van Hes has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the van Hes last name declined 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
- 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 Hes
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