van Scheepen Surname

2,776,799th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 49 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Scheepen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Scheepen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands431:392,72541,894
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539

van Scheepen Last Name Facts

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

van Scheepen is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

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

van Scheepen is the 2,776,799th most prevalent surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. van Scheepen occurs mostly in Europe, where 90 percent of van Scheepen reside; 90 percent reside in Western Europe and 90 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 43 people, or 1 in 392,725. In The Netherlands van Scheepen is most common in: South Holland, where 37 percent reside, North Holland, where 23 percent reside and Utrecht, where 21 percent reside. Without taking into account The Netherlands this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 10 percent reside and Belgium, where 2 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Schepen96275/
van Schapen872/
van Seippen781/
von Shapen731/
van Zeppen731/
van Suypene7026/
van Suipene701/
van Suypenne671/
van Suyppene671/
van Suypeenne642/

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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 Scheepen
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