van Laecken Surname

1,281,391st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 178 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Belgium
Highest density in:
Belgium

van Laecken Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Laecken Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Belgium1491:77,15912,193
France181:3,690,151224,666
United States111:32,950,812797,015

van Laecken Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Laecken occurs more in Belgium more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of van Laecken.

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

The last name is the 1,281,391st most frequently occurring last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 40,941,269 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 94 percent of van Laecken are found; 94 percent are found in Western Europe and 78 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

van Laecken is most commonly held in Belgium, where it is held by 149 people, or 1 in 77,159. In Belgium it is mostly found in: Flemish Region, where 93 percent are found, Walloon Region, where 6 percent are found and Brussels Capital Region, where 1 percent are found. Barring Belgium it is found in 2 countries. It is also found in France, where 10 percent are found and The United States, where 6 percent are found.

van Laecken Last Name Statistics demography

van Laecken earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 0.06% more than the national average, earning $43,175 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Laeken95666/
van Laken9084/
van Leken901/
van Leuken86726/
Van-Lacken861/
van Leaken861/
von Luecken821/
van Luyken7625/
von Locken761/
von Lauken760/
van Luijken7386/

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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 Laecken
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