Wengel Surname
Approximately 1,675 people bear this surname
Wengel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 799 | 1:100,758 | 12,496 |
| United States | 371 | 1:976,978 | 72,504 |
| Poland | 130 | 1:292,375 | 35,141 |
| Denmark | 128 | 1:44,099 | 4,601 |
| Canada | 41 | 1:898,673 | 68,969 |
| Israel | 41 | 1:208,723 | 20,048 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| Australia | 33 | 1:818,052 | 51,601 |
| France | 26 | 1:2,554,720 | 189,486 |
| Scotland | 16 | 1:334,614 | 15,044 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 1:1,688,718 | 81,846 |
| Ecuador | 6 | 1:2,650,974 | 26,148 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Spain | 5 | 1:9,350,407 | 109,555 |
| Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 78 | 1:643,829 | 42,510 |
Wengel (138) may also be a first name.
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Wengel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wengel Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wengel is more frequently found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wengel? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 239,163rd most frequent surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 4,350,774 people. The last name Wengel is primarily found in Europe, where 67 percent of Wengel are found; 50 percent are found in Western Europe and 49 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Wengel is also the 787,636th most common first name throughout the world, borne by 138 people.
The surname Wengel is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is held by 799 people, or 1 in 100,758. In Germany Wengel is most prevalent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 15 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 14 percent live and Hesse, where 13 percent live. Excluding Germany this last name exists in 31 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 22 percent live and Poland, where 8 percent live.
Wengel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wengel has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 476 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Wengel Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Wengel are 11.9% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 58.67% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Wengel earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 3.33% more than the national average, earning $44,584 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.3% less than the national average, earning $48,542 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
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