van Leen Surname

1,152,132nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 208 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Leen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Leen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1761:95,95015,676
Australia161:1,687,23181,699
United States131:27,881,456736,413
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:5,579,854232,921

van Leen Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Leen is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

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

This surname is the 1,152,132nd most prevalent surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 35,036,278 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 86 percent of van Leen reside; 86 percent reside in Western Europe and 85 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 176 people, or 1 in 95,950. In The Netherlands van Leen is mostly concentrated in: North Holland, where 41 percent are found, South Holland, where 39 percent are found and Gelderland, where 8 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 8 percent are found and The United States, where 6 percent are found.

van Leen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of van Leen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the van Leen last name grew 144 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 Leen
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