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 is found most in The Netherlands. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Witsenburg? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,061,269th most commonly held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 31,010,834 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of Witsenburg live; 94 percent live in Western Europe and 94 percent live in Germanic Europe.
Witsenburg is most commonly occurring in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 202 people, or 1 in 83,600. In The Netherlands it is most common in: South Holland, where 38 percent reside, Utrecht, where 17 percent reside and North Holland, where 13 percent reside. Aside from The Netherlands this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 5 percent reside and Switzerland, where 3 percent reside.
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 last name contracted 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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