van Ster Surname
Approximately 561 people bear this surname
van Ster Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 554 | 1:97,794 | 11,890 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: van Stér (1) are calculated separately.
van Ster Demographics
Average van Ster Salary in
South Africa
R 200,640
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
van Ster Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Ster Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname van Ster is held by more people in South Africa than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: van Stér. Click here for other potential spellings of van Ster.
How Common Is The Last Name van Ster? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 564,325th most frequently held surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,990,278 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of van Ster reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
This last name is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is carried by 554 people, or 1 in 97,794. In South Africa van Ster is primarily concentrated in: Western Cape, where 66 percent reside, Eastern Cape, where 19 percent reside and Gauteng, where 6 percent reside. Not including South Africa it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 1 percent reside and Namibia, where 0 percent reside.
van Ster Last Name Statistics demography
van Ster earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 15.57% less than the national average, earning R 200,640 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
- 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 Ster
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