Wending Surname
Approximately 54 people bear this surname
Wending Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 32 | 1:527,724 | 48,879 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Wending (29,762) may also be a first name.
Wending Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wending Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wending occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wending? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,635,433rd most frequent family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 134,954,554 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 85 percent of Wending live; 70 percent live in Western Europe and 70 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 28,055th most commonly used first name on earth It is held by 29,762 people.
The last name Wending is most prevalent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 527,724. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Groningen, where 56 percent live, Overijssel, where 34 percent live and Drenthe, where 3 percent live. Barring The Netherlands it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Sweden, where 13 percent live and Germany, where 11 percent live.
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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 Wending
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