Wijen Surname
Approximately 170 people bear this surname
Wijen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 166 | 1:101,730 | 16,487 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Wijen (46) may also be a first name.
Wijen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wijen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wijen occurs most in The Netherlands. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wijen? popularity and diffusion
Wijen is the 1,321,499th most frequently used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 42,867,917 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Wijen reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe. It is also the 1,484,914th most commonly used first name globally It is held by 46 people.
The last name Wijen is most common in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 166 people, or 1 in 101,730. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: Limburg, where 70 percent reside, North Brabant, where 19 percent reside and South Holland, where 10 percent reside. Without taking into account The Netherlands it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Ecuador, where 1 percent reside and Estonia, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Wijen
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