Wedowski Surname

3,432,070th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 33 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Wedowski Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wedowski Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany321:2,515,796126,826
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Wedowski Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wedowski occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Wedowski? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,432,070th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 220,834,725 people. The last name Wedowski occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of Wedowski live; 97 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The last name Wedowski is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 2,515,796. In Germany it is most common in: Hesse, where 50 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 44 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 3 percent are found. Other than Germany this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 3 percent are found.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Wedowski
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