van Potten Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
van Potten Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 26 | 1:649,507 | 53,972 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
van Potten Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Potten Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname van Potten has its highest incidence in The Netherlands. It can appear as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Potten? popularity and diffusion
The surname van Potten is the 3,798,600th most frequently held family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. van Potten occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of van Potten live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 26 people, or 1 in 649,507. In The Netherlands van Potten is most numerous in: South Holland, where 42 percent reside, Friesland, where 38 percent reside and North Holland, where 19 percent reside. Barring The Netherlands it exists in one country. It is also found in Scotland, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Putten | 90 | 5,809 | / |
| Van Patten | 90 | 722 | / |
| van Petten | 90 | 280 | / |
| van Pütten | 90 | 6 | / |
| van Pattenk | 86 | 2 | / |
| van Pattent | 86 | 0 | / |
| van Peetten | 86 | 0 | / |
| van Paten | 84 | 0 | / |
| van Puten | 84 | 0 | / |
| Van-Putten | 80 | 22 | / |
| Van-Patten | 80 | 3 | / |
| van Puuten | 80 | 1 | / |
| von Putten | 80 | 1 | / |
| van Pettin | 80 | 0 | / |
| van Pattin | 80 | 0 | / |
| von Patten | 80 | 0 | / |
| van Pong | 78 | 1 | / |
| van Poon | 78 | 0 | / |
| von Pfetten | 76 | 15 | / |
| van Phong | 74 | 8 | / |
| van Pasen | 74 | 1 | / |
| van Poong | 74 | 1 | / |
| von Posen | 74 | 0 | / |
| van Pan | 71 | 1 | / |
| van Passen | 70 | 104 | / |
| van Paasen | 70 | 101 | / |
| van Phuong | 70 | 35 | / |
| van Paassen | 67 | 1,154 | / |
| van Phan | 67 | 49 | / |
| van Pang | 67 | 1 | / |
| van Pane | 67 | 0 | / |
| van Paasschen | 61 | 57 | / |
| van Pam | 59 | 1 | / |
| van Pham | 56 | 191 | / |
| Van-Phan | 56 | 1 | / |
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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 Potten
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