van Westering Surname
Approximately 217 people bear this surname
van Westering Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 171 | 1:98,755 | 16,062 |
| Brazil | 25 | 1:8,562,973 | 188,780 |
| United States | 11 | 1:32,950,812 | 797,015 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
van Westering Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Westering Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Westering is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Westering? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,118,459th most numerous last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 33,583,161 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 83 percent of van Westering live; 82 percent live in Western Europe and 79 percent live in Germanic Europe.
van Westering is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 171 people, or 1 in 98,755. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: South Holland, where 25 percent live, North Holland, where 20 percent live and Utrecht, where 18 percent live. Besides The Netherlands this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 12 percent live and The United States, where 5 percent live.
van Westering Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of van Westering has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the van Westering last name expanded 122 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| van Wetering | 96 | 345 | / |
| van Wettering | 92 | 42 | / |
| van Western | 92 | 1 | / |
| van Weterin | 92 | 1 | / |
| van Wétering | 88 | 1 | / |
| van Wetteren | 80 | 16 | / |
| van Westrene | 80 | 2 | / |
| van Vetteren | 72 | 58 | / |
| van Bysteren | 72 | 1 | / |
| van Bijsteren | 69 | 164 | / |
| van Vittern | 67 | 3 | / |
| Van-Vetteren | 64 | 1 | / |
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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 Westering
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