van Meers Surname

5,391,485th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 13 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Belgium

van Meers Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Meers Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:36,245,893832,629
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
England11:55,718,059489,080
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States31:16,739,561595,711

van Meers Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Meers occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of van Meers.

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

The surname van Meers is the 5,391,485th most widely held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The surname van Meers is predominantly found in The Americas, where 77 percent of van Meers live; 77 percent live in North America and 77 percent live in Anglo-North America.

It is most frequently held in The United States, where it is borne by 10 people, or 1 in 36,245,893. In The United States van Meers is most common in: Maryland, where 50 percent live, District of Columbia, where 30 percent live and Virginia, where 20 percent live. Other than The United States it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 8 percent live and England, where 8 percent live.

van Meers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of van Meers has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the van Meers last name increased 333 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Meyers951/
van Meurs893,120/
van Moers897/
van Myers891/
van Meersche8655/
van Meurss841/
van Meerssche8253/
van Mörs821/
von Moers7853/
van Merch7847/
von Myers781/
van Marsh781/
Van-Meurs781/
von Mors712/
von Morss671/

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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 Meers
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