van Sluys Surname

837,371st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 329 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Sluys Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Sluys Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1291:130,90820,305
United States541:6,712,202314,667
Australia481:562,41041,290
Canada311:1,188,56786,017
Belgium261:442,17945,013
France151:4,428,181244,602
South Africa121:4,514,809137,638
Brazil111:19,461,303329,560
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128

van Sluys Last Name Facts

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

The surname van Sluys is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

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

The last name is the 837,371st most commonly occurring last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 22,150,595 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 52 percent of van Sluys live; 52 percent live in Western Europe and 43 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This surname is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 129 people, or 1 in 130,908. In The Netherlands van Sluys is mostly found in: Zeeland, where 33 percent are found, South Holland, where 26 percent are found and Friesland, where 8 percent are found. Other than The Netherlands this surname occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 16 percent are found and Australia, where 15 percent are found.

van Sluys Last Name Statistics demography

The amount van Sluys earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 36.81% more than the national average, earning R 325,104 per year; in United States they earn 154.93% more than the national average, earning $110,000 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.15% less than the national average, earning $46,626 CAD per year.

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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 Sluys
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