Wassenburg Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Wassenburg Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 228 | 1:74,067 | 12,549 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Wassenburg Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wassenburg Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wassenburg is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wassenburg? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,073,555th most common last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 31,547,818 people. The last name Wassenburg occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Wassenburg reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname Wassenburg is most commonly held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 228 people, or 1 in 74,067. In The Netherlands it is primarily found in: South Holland, where 49 percent reside, North Holland, where 15 percent reside and North Brabant, where 9 percent reside. Beside The Netherlands this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Germany, where 0 percent reside.
Wassenburg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wassenburg has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wassenburg surname decreased 33 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
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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 Wassenburg
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