van Rijen Surname
Approximately 763 people bear this surname
van Rijen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 704 | 1:23,987 | 3,888 |
| New Zealand | 28 | 1:161,726 | 18,041 |
| Belgium | 15 | 1:766,443 | 63,354 |
| Australia | 9 | 1:2,999,522 | 116,751 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
van Rijen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Rijen Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Rijen is found in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Rijen? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 446,740th most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 9,551,174 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of van Rijen reside; 94 percent reside in Western Europe and 94 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name van Rijen is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 704 people, or 1 in 23,987. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: North Brabant, where 61 percent live, South Holland, where 10 percent live and Gelderland, where 8 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands van Rijen occurs in 9 countries. It is also found in New Zealand, where 4 percent live and Belgium, where 2 percent live.
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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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