van Syl Surname

7,593,402nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

van Syl Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Syl Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
South Africa21:27,088,852277,613
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465

van Syl Last Name Facts

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

van Syl is found most in Australia. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

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

This last name is the 7,593,402nd most commonly occurring family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,214,590,986 people. The last name van Syl occurs mostly in Oceania, where 50 percent of van Syl are found; 50 percent are found in Australasia and 50 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

This surname is most frequent in Australia, where it is held by 3 people, or 1 in 8,998,567. In Australia van Syl is mostly concentrated in: Northern Territory, where 100 percent live. Beside Australia this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 33 percent live and The Netherlands, where 17 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Syll934/
van Zyl8672,635/
van Sil861/
van Xyl861/
van Zyll8026/
van Sell8013/
van Schil75350/
van Schel75165/
van Schilt71476/
van Schelt71239/
van Schöll7158/
Van-Zyl7121/
von Zyl712/
van Schild712/
van Zil712/
von Seld6712/
van Scheltt671/
van Celt670/
von Seldt631/
von Schill5947/
von Schell599/
Van-Schilt597/
von Scheel597/
von Zell533/

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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 Syl
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