Wettzel Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Wettzel Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| 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 |
Wettzel Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wettzel Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wettzel has its highest incidence in Germany. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wettzel? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,193,072nd most frequent family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The last name Wettzel occurs predominantly in Europe, where 80 percent of Wettzel are found; 80 percent are found in Western Europe and 80 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 20,126,365. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 50 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 25 percent reside. Besides Germany it is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 20 percent reside.
Wettzel Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Wettzel has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Wettzel surname 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 Wettzel
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