von Mollendorff Surname
Approximately 186 people bear this surname
von Mollendorff Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 180 | 1:300,987 | 28,973 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
von Mollendorff Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name von Mollendorff Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname von Mollendorff occurs most in South Africa. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name von Mollendorff? popularity and diffusion
The last name von Mollendorff is the 1,244,200th most widely held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 39,180,354 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of von Mollendorff live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widespread in South Africa, where it is borne by 180 people, or 1 in 300,987. In South Africa von Mollendorff is most frequent in: Western Cape, where 41 percent reside, Gauteng, where 31 percent reside and KwaZulu-Natal, where 11 percent reside. Beside South Africa this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 2 percent reside and Namibia, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| von Molendorff | 97 | 377 | / |
| von Mollendorf | 97 | 124 | / |
| von Molendorf | 93 | 59 | / |
| van Mollendorff | 93 | 3 | / |
| van Molendorff | 90 | 292 | / |
| van Mollendorf | 90 | 41 | / |
| von Mölendorff | 90 | 7 | / |
| von Molemdorff | 90 | 1 | / |
| van Mollendorft | 87 | 1 | / |
| van Molendorf | 86 | 29 | / |
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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 von Mollendorff
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