Wohlgethan Surname
Approximately 112 people bear this surname
Wohlgethan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 97 | 1:829,953 | 60,372 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Wohlgethan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wohlgethan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wohlgethan is more frequently found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wohlgethan? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,727,723rd most frequently used surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 65,067,374 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Wohlgethan are found; 88 percent are found in Western Europe and 87 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most prevalent in Germany, where it is held by 97 people, or 1 in 829,953. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 31 percent are found, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 27 percent are found and Lower Saxony, where 20 percent are found. Beside Germany it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Sweden, where 7 percent are found and The United States, where 5 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 Wohlgethan
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