van Item Surname

2,843,861st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 47 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Item Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Item Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands371:456,41045,371
United States71:51,779,848968,877
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

van Item Last Name Facts

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

van Item occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

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

The surname van Item is the 2,843,861st most common last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 155,054,168 people. The last name van Item is mostly found in Europe, where 83 percent of van Item are found; 83 percent are found in Western Europe and 83 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 37 people, or 1 in 456,410. In The Netherlands it is most prevalent in: North Brabant, where 49 percent are found, South Holland, where 22 percent are found and Limburg, where 16 percent are found. Beside The Netherlands it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 15 percent are found and Belgium, where 4 percent are found.

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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 Item
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