Wijgers Surname
Approximately 303 people bear this surname
Wijgers Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 260 | 1:64,951 | 11,141 |
| Belgium | 34 | 1:338,137 | 37,845 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wijgers Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wijgers Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wijgers is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wijgers? popularity and diffusion
Wijgers is the 887,624th most widely held last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 24,051,307 people. The last name Wijgers is predominantly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Wijgers reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Wijgers is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is held by 260 people, or 1 in 64,951. In The Netherlands Wijgers is most numerous in: South Holland, where 27 percent live, Gelderland, where 26 percent live and North Brabant, where 26 percent live. Besides The Netherlands this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 11 percent live and Australia, where 1 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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