van Wouwen Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
van Wouwen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 58 | 1:291,158 | 35,264 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
van Wouwen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Wouwen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name van Wouwen occurs most in The Netherlands. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of van Wouwen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name van Wouwen? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,506,728th most widespread last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 123,517,727 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of van Wouwen reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name van Wouwen is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 58 people, or 1 in 291,158. In The Netherlands van Wouwen is primarily found in: South Holland, where 57 percent live, North Brabant, where 22 percent live and North Holland, where 9 percent live. Excluding The Netherlands this last name exists in one country. It is also common in Thailand, where 2 percent live.
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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
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