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 surname Wiehmann is found in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wiehmann? popularity and diffusion
Wiehmann is the 4,649,889th most numerous surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. The 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.
The last name is most widespread in Germany, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 5,367,031. In Germany it is most numerous in: Saxony-Anhalt, where 60 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 20 percent live and Bavaria, where 7 percent live. Other than Germany this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 6 percent live and Switzerland, where 6 percent live.
Wiehmann Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Wiehmann has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Wiehmann last name fell 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wiehmann
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