van Leunen Surname
Approximately 90 people bear this surname
van Leunen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 77 | 1:219,314 | 29,463 |
| United States | 13 | 1:27,881,456 | 736,413 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
van Leunen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Leunen Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Leunen is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Leunen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,967,751st most frequently held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 80,972,732 people. The last name van Leunen occurs mostly in Europe, where 86 percent of van Leunen are found; 86 percent are found in Western Europe and 86 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 77 people, or 1 in 219,314. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: North Brabant, where 57 percent reside, Friesland, where 17 percent reside and Groningen, where 9 percent reside. Beside The Netherlands van Leunen is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 14 percent reside.
van Leunen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of van Leunen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the van Leunen last name increased 433 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Lunen | 95 | 113 | / |
| van Lenen | 95 | 1 | / |
| van Loenen | 90 | 2,656 | / |
| van Leenen | 90 | 454 | / |
| van Lienen | 90 | 177 | / |
| van Luinen | 90 | 134 | / |
| van Luenen | 90 | 92 | / |
| van Laenen | 90 | 69 | / |
| van Luunen | 90 | 29 | / |
| van Luynen | 90 | 1 | / |
| van Luijnen | 86 | 8 | / |
| van Lanen | 84 | 774 | / |
| von Lunen | 84 | 24 | / |
| van Laanen | 80 | 360 | / |
| van Lannen | 80 | 48 | / |
| von Lienen | 80 | 33 | / |
| von Leinen | 80 | 3 | / |
| Van-Loenen | 80 | 1 | / |
| van Leening | 76 | 63 | / |
| von Linen | 74 | 0 | / |
| von Lunink | 70 | 1 | / |
| Van-Laanen | 70 | 1 | / |
| van Laningh | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Leunen
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