van Zeelst Surname

1,398,030th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 156 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Zeelst Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

van Zeelst Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1551:108,95017,471
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

van Zeelst Last Name Facts

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

van Zeelst is found most in The Netherlands. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

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

This last name is the 1,398,030th most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 46,715,038 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of van Zeelst reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The surname van Zeelst is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 155 people, or 1 in 108,950. In The Netherlands it is most common in: North Brabant, where 45 percent are found, South Holland, where 32 percent are found and Gelderland, where 16 percent are found. Not including The Netherlands it exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
van Zelst951,352/
van Zielst9079/
van Zeilst901/
van Selst84171/
van Celst8451/
van Gels7842/
van Gilst741,156/
van Giels74113/
van Gils677,819/
van Gilse63114/
van Gills6311/
Van-Gils5634/
von Selz568/
Van-Gilse531/

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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 Zeelst
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