van Rijst Surname

3,228,735th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 37 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Rijst Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Rijst Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands361:469,08846,010
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

van Rijst Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Rijst is found in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

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

This last name is the 3,228,735th most commonly occurring last name on earth, held by around 1 in 196,960,700 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 97 percent of van Rijst are found; 97 percent are found in Western Europe and 97 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

The last name van Rijst is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 469,088. In The Netherlands it is mostly found in: South Holland, where 67 percent live, Limburg, where 17 percent live and North Brabant, where 14 percent live. Barring The Netherlands it is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 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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