van Houwe Surname

2,352,516th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 66 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

van Houwe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Houwe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium591:194,85825,672
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

van Houwe Last Name Facts

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

van Houwe is more frequently found in Belgium than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

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

It is the 2,352,516th most common family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 110,417,362 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 89 percent of van Houwe live; 89 percent live in Western Europe and 88 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This surname is most widespread in Belgium, where it is carried by 59 people, or 1 in 194,858. In Belgium van Houwe is mostly found in: Flemish Region, where 98 percent live and Walloon Region, where 2 percent live. Besides Belgium this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 9 percent live and Canada, where 2 percent live.

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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 Houwe
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