Witsenburg Surname
Approximately 235 people bear this surname
Witsenburg Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 202 | 1:83,600 | 13,946 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| Switzerland | 7 | 1:1,173,274 | 69,697 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Witsenburg Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Witsenburg Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Witsenburg occurs more in The Netherlands more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Witsenburg.
How Common Is The Last Name Witsenburg? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,061,269th most common family name on earth, held by around 1 in 31,010,834 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of Witsenburg are found; 94 percent are found in Western Europe and 94 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
The surname Witsenburg is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 202 people, or 1 in 83,600. In The Netherlands it is most common in: South Holland, where 38 percent are found, Utrecht, where 17 percent are found and North Holland, where 13 percent are found. Beside The Netherlands this last name is found in 7 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 5 percent are found and Switzerland, where 3 percent are found.
Witsenburg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Witsenburg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Witsenburg surname fell 57 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
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