Wetel Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Wetel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 12 | 1:709,620 | 61,025 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
Wetel (13) may also be a first name.
Wetel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wetel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wetel occurs in Austria more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wetel? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,034,050th most commonly held last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 58 percent of Wetel are found; 50 percent are found in Western Europe and 50 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Wetel is also the 3,159,357th most widespread given name world-wide, borne by 13 people.
It is most commonly occurring in Austria, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 709,620. In Austria it is most numerous in: Lower Austria, where 92 percent reside and Vienna, where 8 percent reside. Besides Austria it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Venezuela, where 21 percent reside and The United States, where 13 percent reside.
Wetel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wetel has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wetel last name contracted 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
- 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 Wetel
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