van Pletsen Surname

1,133,308th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 213 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

van Pletsen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Pletsen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2011:269,54126,840
England71:7,959,723202,100
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

van Pletsen Last Name Facts

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

The last name van Pletsen is found most in South Africa. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

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

The surname van Pletsen is the 1,133,308th most frequently used family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 34,213,831 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of van Pletsen live; 94 percent live in Southern Africa and 94 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name is most common in South Africa, where it is borne by 201 people, or 1 in 269,541. In South Africa it is most numerous in: Gauteng, where 37 percent live, KwaZulu-Natal, where 27 percent live and Free State, where 19 percent live. Beside South Africa it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in England, where 3 percent live and Australia, where 1 percent live.

van Pletsen Last Name Statistics demography

van Pletsen earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 49.96% more than the national average, earning R 356,352 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Vanpletsen9521/
van Pletzen911,129/
Vanpletzen866/
von Plessen8211/
van Pleizen821/
von Pletzen821/
van Poelje-Thissen761/
von Plessing7016/
van Pellecon705/

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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 Pletsen
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