Wittgrefe Surname

2,203,767th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 74 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Wittgrefe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Wittgrefe Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany691:1,166,74676,492
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:8,369,781355,680

Wittgrefe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Wittgrefe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Wittgrefe is found most frequently in Germany. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Wittgrefe? popularity and diffusion

The last name Wittgrefe is the 2,203,767th most commonly used surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 98,480,350 people. The surname Wittgrefe occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Wittgrefe live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 96 percent live in Germanic Europe.

Wittgrefe is most widely held in Germany, where it is carried by 69 people, or 1 in 1,166,746. In Germany it is primarily found in: Schleswig-Holstein, where 62 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 30 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 3 percent live. Beside Germany this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Austria, where 1 percent live and Denmark, where 1 percent live.

Wittgrefe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Wittgrefe has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Wittgrefe surname declined 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Wittgreffe957/
Witgrefe945/
Wietgrefe89153/
Wittgreve8921/
Wittgräfe8917/
Weitgrefe891/
Wittgrafe890/
Wittgraef890/
Wietegrefe841/
Wittgraf8228/
Witgräfe821/
Wittgrove787/
Whitgrafe780/
Witkhraf592/
Wetegrove56137/
Weidgraaf5690/
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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Wittgrefe
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