Wittenaar Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Wittenaar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 143 | 1:118,092 | 18,619 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Wittenaar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wittenaar Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wittenaar is more commonly found in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wittenaar? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wittenaar is the 1,465,390th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wittenaar live; 100 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 143 people, or 1 in 118,092. In The Netherlands it is mostly concentrated in: Overijssel, where 35 percent are found, Gelderland, where 21 percent are found and Drenthe, where 15 percent are found. Apart from The Netherlands Wittenaar is found in 2 countries. It is also found in France, where 1 percent are found and Switzerland, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Wittenaar
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