Wiehmann Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Wiehmann Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 15 | 1:5,367,031 | 196,901 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 22 | 1:2,282,667 | 111,005 |
Wiehmann Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wiehmann Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wiehmann occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wiehmann.
How Common Is The Last Name Wiehmann? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,649,889th most widespread last name in the world, held by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 89 percent of Wiehmann reside; 89 percent reside in Western Europe and 89 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most prevalent in Germany, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 5,367,031. In Germany Wiehmann is most numerous in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 60 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent are found and Bavaria, where 7 percent are found. Without taking into account Germany it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 6 percent are found and Switzerland, where 6 percent are found.
Wiehmann Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wiehmann has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name decreased 95 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
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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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