van Velde Surname
Approximately 316 people bear this surname
van Velde Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 278 | 1:60,745 | 10,452 |
| Germany | 30 | 1:2,683,515 | 132,064 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
van Velde Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Velde Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname van Velde is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of van Velde click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Velde? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 860,770th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 23,061,854 people. van Velde occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of van Velde reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most numerous in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 278 people, or 1 in 60,745. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: South Holland, where 44 percent reside, Gelderland, where 19 percent reside and Utrecht, where 11 percent reside. Besides The Netherlands this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 9 percent reside and Belgium, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Veldeu | 95 | 1 | / |
| van Velder | 95 | 0 | / |
| van Welde | 89 | 49 | / |
| van Weelde | 84 | 138 | / |
| van Vylder | 84 | 1 | / |
| van Vledder | 80 | 161 | / |
| von Felde | 78 | 17 | / |
| van Wilde | 78 | 4 | / |
| von Velda | 78 | 0 | / |
| van Wilder | 74 | 251 | / |
| von Felder | 74 | 0 | / |
| von Wilde | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Velde
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