Wijchen Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Wijchen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 24 | 1:703,632 | 56,027 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Wijchen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wijchen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wijchen occurs most in The Netherlands. It may appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wijchen? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,882,373rd most frequent last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 280,290,228 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Wijchen are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 24 people, or 1 in 703,632. In The Netherlands Wijchen is mostly concentrated in: Gelderland, where 46 percent live, North Brabant, where 33 percent live and South Holland, where 21 percent live. Apart from The Netherlands Wijchen exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 4 percent live and Switzerland, where 4 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
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