van Zanen Surname

692,305th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 427 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Zanen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Zanen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands3431:49,2348,424
Australia431:627,80744,139
United States311:11,692,224454,091
Thailand71:10,091,192512,203
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372

van Zanen Last Name Facts

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

The last name van Zanen has its highest incidence in The Netherlands. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of van Zanen.

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

The surname van Zanen is the 692,305th most frequently used last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 17,066,852 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 81 percent of van Zanen reside; 80 percent reside in Western Europe and 80 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most common in The Netherlands, where it is held by 343 people, or 1 in 49,234. In The Netherlands it is most prevalent in: North Holland, where 37 percent reside, South Holland, where 36 percent reside and Utrecht, where 6 percent reside. Aside from The Netherlands van Zanen is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 10 percent reside and The United States, where 7 percent reside.

van Zanen Last Name Statistics demography

van Zanen earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 91.2% more than the national average, earning $82,500 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Zaanen95480/
van Sanen898/
van Zoonen84139/
van Saanen8445/
van Sannen846/
van Sonnen7423/
von Söhnen639/
von Sohnen638/
von Soehnen604/
von Sanoen531/

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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 Zanen
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