Voorwold Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Voorwold Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 36 | 1:2,236,263 | 117,794 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Voorwold Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Voorwold Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Voorwold occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Voorwold? popularity and diffusion
Voorwold is the 3,017,195th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 173,512,998 people. The last name Voorwold is predominantly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Voorwold are found; 86 percent are found in Western Europe and 86 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Voorwold is most prevalent in Germany, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 2,236,263. In Germany Voorwold is most prevalent in: Lower Saxony, where 64 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 31 percent reside and Bavaria, where 3 percent reside. Apart from Germany this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 12 percent reside and Scotland, where 2 percent reside.
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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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