Viester Surname
Approximately 111 people bear this surname
Viester Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 108 | 1:156,363 | 23,208 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1:10,043,737 | 422,899 |
The alternate forms: Viëster (1) are calculated separately.
Viester (11) may also be a first name.
Viester Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Viester Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Viester is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It may be rendered as a variant: Viëster. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Viester? popularity and diffusion
The surname Viester is the 1,736,881st most frequently occurring last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 65,653,567 people. Viester occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Viester live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe. Viester is also the 3,487,849th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 11 people.
The last name Viester is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is held by 108 people, or 1 in 156,363. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Gelderland, where 41 percent live, Limburg, where 14 percent live and Overijssel, where 13 percent live. Apart from The Netherlands this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 1 percent live and Russia, where 1 percent live.
Viester Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Viester has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Viester last name declined 80 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Viester
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