Wismeyer Surname
Approximately 78 people bear this surname
Wismeyer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 62 | 1:272,374 | 33,874 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 1:4,184,890 | 180,076 |
Wismeyer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wismeyer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wismeyer is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Wismeyer click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wismeyer? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,136,387th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 93,430,076 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 83 percent of Wismeyer live; 83 percent live in Western Europe and 82 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most common in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 62 people, or 1 in 272,374. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: South Holland, where 48 percent reside, Gelderland, where 18 percent reside and Flevoland, where 13 percent reside. Besides The Netherlands this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in New Zealand, where 8 percent reside and The United States, where 5 percent reside.
Wismeyer Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wismeyer has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wismeyer surname declined 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Wismeyer
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