Wiedecke Surname
Approximately 303 people bear this surname
Wiedecke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 289 | 1:278,566 | 29,283 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
Wiedecke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wiedecke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wiedecke is found most frequently in Germany. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wiedecke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wiedecke is the 887,624th most common family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 24,051,307 people. Wiedecke is primarily found in Europe, where 96 percent of Wiedecke reside; 96 percent reside in Western Europe and 96 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Wiedecke is most frequent in Germany, where it is carried by 289 people, or 1 in 278,566. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: Brandenburg, where 30 percent live, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 22 percent live and Saxony-Anhalt, where 12 percent live. Not including Germany this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 3 percent live and Brazil, where 1 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 Wiedecke
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