Wijns Surname
Approximately 1,662 people bear this surname
Wijns Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1,527 | 1:7,529 | 1,021 |
| Netherlands | 121 | 1:139,563 | 21,355 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Wijns Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wijns Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wijns occurs more in Belgium more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Wijns click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wijns? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wijns is the 240,653rd most widespread surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 4,384,805 people. The surname Wijns is primarily found in Europe, where 100 percent of Wijns live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 92 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequently used in Belgium, where it is borne by 1,527 people, or 1 in 7,529. In Belgium Wijns is most frequent in: Flemish Region, where 92 percent live, Brussels Capital Region, where 7 percent live and Walloon Region, where 1 percent live. Apart from Belgium this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 7 percent live and Germany, where 0 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wijns
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