van Ruiven Surname
Approximately 156 people bear this surname
van Ruiven Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 154 | 1:109,657 | 17,576 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
van Ruiven Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Ruiven Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Ruiven is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name van Ruiven? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,398,030th most widespread surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of van Ruiven live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is held by 154 people, or 1 in 109,657. In The Netherlands van Ruiven is mostly concentrated in: South Holland, where 71 percent live, Drenthe, where 8 percent live and North Holland, where 8 percent live. Aside from The Netherlands this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Ireland, where 1 percent live and Sweden, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Ruijven | 95 | 523 | / |
| van Ruyven | 90 | 329 | / |
| van Rieven | 90 | 11 | / |
| van Rijven | 90 | 1 | / |
| van Raven | 84 | 5 | / |
| van Ruben | 84 | 0 | / |
| van Reeven | 80 | 188 | / |
| van Roeven | 80 | 1 | / |
| van Rooven | 80 | 1 | / |
| van Roouen | 80 | 1 | / |
| von Ruben | 74 | 95 | / |
| von Raven | 74 | 6 | / |
| von Rueben | 70 | 1 | / |
| Van-Reeven | 70 | 1 | / |
| van Rooybn | 60 | 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ruiven
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