Wiersing Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Wiersing Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 71 | 1:1,133,880 | 74,985 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Wiersing Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wiersing Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wiersing is carried by more people in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wiersing? popularity and diffusion
Wiersing is the 2,106,139th most numerous family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 91,094,324 people. The surname Wiersing is mostly found in Europe, where 93 percent of Wiersing are found; 93 percent are found in Western Europe and 91 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in Germany, where it is carried by 71 people, or 1 in 1,133,880. In Germany it is primarily found in: Thuringia, where 42 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 28 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 15 percent live. Beside Germany this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 6 percent live and Australia, where 1 percent live.
Wiersing Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wiersing has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Wiersing last name fell 17 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 Wiersing
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