Weelen Surname
Approximately 121 people bear this surname
Weelen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 74 | 1:228,205 | 30,213 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Weelen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Weelen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Weelen is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Weelen? popularity and diffusion
The last name Weelen is the 1,649,806th most widespread surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 60,227,652 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 91 percent of Weelen live; 69 percent live in Western Europe and 61 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Weelen is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 74 people, or 1 in 228,205. In The Netherlands it is most common in: Limburg, where 76 percent live, Gelderland, where 11 percent live and South Holland, where 11 percent live. Barring The Netherlands this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also found in England, where 21 percent live and Australia, where 8 percent live.
Weelen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Weelen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Weelen surname fell 75 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
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