Wissem Surname
Approximately 146 people bear this surname
Wissem Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunisia | 89 | 1:6,861 | 1,141 |
| Germany | 35 | 1:2,300,156 | 119,987 |
| Algeria | 9 | 1:4,292,395 | 48,087 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Wissem (2,295) may also be a first name.
Wissem Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wissem Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wissem occurs in Tunisia more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wissem? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,459,453rd most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 49,914,698 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Wissem live; 67 percent live in North Africa and 67 percent live in Mahgreb. Wissem is also the 155,629th most commonly used given name in the world. It is borne by 2,295 people.
The last name Wissem is most frequently used in Tunisia, where it is carried by 89 people, or 1 in 6,861. Other than Tunisia this last name occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 24 percent live and Algeria, where 6 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 Wissem
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