Wallenberg Surname

338,735th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,086 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Sweden

Wallenberg Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wallenberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4901:739,71257,942
Sweden4641:21,2211,759
Finland261:211,41217,592
Canada191:1,939,242123,675
Estonia121:110,15019,471
Russia111:13,102,096377,010
England101:5,571,806158,774
Switzerland81:1,026,61463,315
Germany71:11,500,780305,602
Israel71:1,222,51968,299
Norway61:857,04855,549
Philippines51:20,247,645262,352
Netherlands51:3,377,435111,911
Belarus21:4,750,530139,516
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States461:1,091,71163,103

Wallenberg (16) may also be a first name.

Wallenberg Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wallenberg is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Wallenberg? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 338,735th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,710,447 people. Wallenberg occurs predominantly in Europe, where 51 percent of Wallenberg reside; 48 percent reside in Northern Europe and 46 percent reside in Scandinavia. Wallenberg is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 16 people.

This surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 490 people, or 1 in 739,712. In The United States Wallenberg is most numerous in: Illinois, where 27 percent are found, South Dakota, where 9 percent are found and Minnesota, where 9 percent are found. Outside of The United States it exists in 25 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 43 percent are found and Finland, where 2 percent are found.

Wallenberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Wallenberg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wallenberg surname expanded 1,065 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Wallenberg Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Wallenberg surname are 0.72000000000001% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 53.95% being registered with the political party.

The amount Wallenberg earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Norway they earn 11.9% less than the national average, earning 304,891 kr per year; in United States they earn 4.35% less than the national average, earning $41,274 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.97% less than the national average, earning $47,212 CAD per year.

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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 Wallenberg
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