Wissen Surname
Approximately 1,073 people bear this surname
Wissen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 608 | 1:132,410 | 16,131 |
| United States | 165 | 1:2,196,721 | 138,143 |
| France | 108 | 1:615,025 | 80,926 |
| Netherlands | 96 | 1:175,908 | 25,337 |
| Iraq | 37 | 1:946,531 | 12,381 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Iran | 10 | 1:7,678,252 | 153,484 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 1:3,138,668 | 142,671 |
The alternate forms: Wissén (24) are calculated separately.
Wissen (26) may also be a first name.
Wissen Demographics
Average Wissen Salary in
United States
$46,232 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Wissen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wissen Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wissen is most common in Germany. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Wissén. Click here for other possible spellings of Wissen.
How Common Is The Last Name Wissen? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 342,056th most prevalent last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 6,791,748 people. The last name Wissen is primarily found in Europe, where 78 percent of Wissen are found; 77 percent are found in Western Europe and 66 percent are found in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,084,397th most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 26 people.
The surname is most numerous in Germany, where it is carried by 608 people, or 1 in 132,410. In Germany it is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 74 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 18 percent live and Hesse, where 2 percent live. Outside of Germany Wissen is found in 24 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 15 percent live and France, where 10 percent live.
Wissen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Wissen has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 1,031 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 157 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Wissen Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Wissen last name are 29.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 76% being registered with the party.
Wissen earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 7.15% more than the national average, earning $46,232 USD per year.
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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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