van Kerschaver Surname
Approximately 287 people bear this surname
van Kerschaver Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 278 | 1:41,355 | 6,773 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
van Kerschaver Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Kerschaver Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Kerschaver is found most in Belgium. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Kerschaver? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 921,780th most commonly used surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 25,392,146 people. The surname van Kerschaver is mostly found in Europe, where 98 percent of van Kerschaver reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 97 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most numerous in Belgium, where it is held by 278 people, or 1 in 41,355. In Belgium it is primarily concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 100 percent are found and Brussels Capital Region, where 0 percent are found. Other than Belgium this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Kerschaever | 97 | 109 | / |
| van Kersschaver | 97 | 62 | / |
| Vankerschaver | 96 | 70 | / |
| van Kershaver | 96 | 8 | / |
| van Kersschaever | 93 | 43 | / |
| Vankerschaever | 93 | 19 | / |
| van Kerschavir | 93 | 1 | / |
| van Kerschawer | 93 | 1 | / |
| van Kerchove | 85 | 147 | / |
| van Kerchhove | 81 | 1 | / |
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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 Kerschaver
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