van Oost Surname
Approximately 1,907 people bear this surname
van Oost Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1,105 | 1:10,404 | 1,494 |
| Netherlands | 499 | 1:33,842 | 5,646 |
| France | 231 | 1:287,544 | 44,088 |
| United States | 24 | 1:15,102,456 | 529,929 |
| Argentina | 13 | 1:3,287,955 | 132,850 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Bolivia | 2 | 1:5,308,217 | 12,400 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
van Oost Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Oost Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Oost is borne by more people in Belgium than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Oost? popularity and diffusion
It is the 215,441st most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,821,471 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of van Oost reside; 97 percent reside in Western Europe and 76 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most frequent in Belgium, where it is carried by 1,105 people, or 1 in 10,404. In Belgium van Oost is mostly concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 86 percent reside, Walloon Region, where 10 percent reside and Brussels Capital Region, where 4 percent reside. Apart from Belgium this last name exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 26 percent reside and France, where 12 percent reside.
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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
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