Wigges Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Wigges Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 13 | 1:1,875,028 | 58,113 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Wigges Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wigges Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wigges is found most in Germany. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wigges? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 5,391,485th most widely held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 560,580,455 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 85 percent of Wigges live; 85 percent live in Western Europe and 85 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most prevalent in Germany, where it is borne by 11 people, or 1 in 7,318,678. In Germany Wigges is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 73 percent reside and Bavaria, where 18 percent reside. Excluding Germany this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 8 percent reside and The United States, where 8 percent reside.
Wigges Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wigges has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Wigges surname declined 50 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 Wigges
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