Wauters Surname
Approximately 12,212 people bear this surname
Wauters Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 10,108 | 1:1,137 | 40 |
| France | 732 | 1:90,741 | 13,066 |
| United States | 656 | 1:552,529 | 45,649 |
| Netherlands | 253 | 1:66,748 | 11,408 |
| Canada | 75 | 1:491,275 | 42,011 |
| Brazil | 59 | 1:3,628,379 | 101,412 |
| England | 56 | 1:994,965 | 49,531 |
| Argentina | 54 | 1:791,545 | 52,685 |
| Germany | 42 | 1:1,916,797 | 106,618 |
| Costa Rica | 31 | 1:154,196 | 2,192 |
| Australia | 26 | 1:1,038,296 | 59,744 |
| Switzerland | 18 | 1:456,273 | 33,097 |
| Thailand | 17 | 1:4,155,197 | 336,594 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Spain | 12 | 1:3,896,003 | 72,236 |
| Ecuador | 11 | 1:1,445,986 | 17,636 |
| Uruguay | 5 | 1:686,352 | 29,886 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1:1,509,441 | 47,971 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20 | 1:2,510,934 | 119,518 |
The alternate forms: Waûters (5) are calculated separately.
Wauters Demographics
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Wauters Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wauters Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wauters is carried by more people in Belgium than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Waûters. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wauters? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 42,636th most frequent surname at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 596,753 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 92 percent of Wauters are found; 91 percent are found in Western Europe and 65 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most prevalent in Belgium, where it is carried by 10,108 people, or 1 in 1,137. In Belgium Wauters is mostly concentrated in: Flemish Region, where 75 percent live, Walloon Region, where 15 percent live and Brussels Capital Region, where 9 percent live. Excluding Belgium Wauters is found in 41 countries. It also occurs in France, where 6 percent live and The United States, where 5 percent live.
Wauters Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wauters has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 3,280 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Wauters Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Wauters surname are 28.77% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 75.54% registered with the party.
The amount Wauters earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 15.58% more than the national average, earning $49,872 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.96% less than the national average, earning $47,716 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 Wauters
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