Wijfje Surname

1,620,164th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 124 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Wijfje Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wijfje Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands1191:141,90921,612
Germany51:16,101,092397,699

Wijfje (221) may also be a first name.

Wijfje Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wijfje Come From? nationality or country of origin

Wijfje is held by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Wijfje? popularity and diffusion

The last name Wijfje is the 1,620,164th most frequently held family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 58,770,532 people. The surname Wijfje is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Wijfje reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Wijfje is also the 606,684th most frequently used given name world-wide, borne by 221 people.

This last name is most common in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 119 people, or 1 in 141,909. In The Netherlands Wijfje is most prevalent in: South Holland, where 89 percent reside, Drenthe, where 5 percent reside and North Brabant, where 4 percent reside. Without taking into account The Netherlands this last name exists in one country. It is also found in Germany, where 4 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wijfjes92177/
Wife8036/
Whife7369/
Waife7360/
Wyfje7312/
Woife7311/
Wifet737/
Wifeh732/
Wiefe732/
Wifie731/
Weife731/
Wifey730/
Wipfe730/
Weifei678/
Wyfjes675/
Weifeh672/
Waifei671/
Waifea671/
Wiffie671/
Wipfer671/

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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 Wijfje
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