Wölm Surname
Approximately 484 people bear this surname
Wölm Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 475 | 1:169,485 | 19,973 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Wölm Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wölm Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wölm occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wölm? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 631,297th most commonly used last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 15,056,913 people. The surname Wölm occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wölm live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 475 people, or 1 in 169,485. In Germany Wölm is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent reside, Schleswig-Holstein, where 18 percent reside and Baden-Württemberg, where 10 percent reside. Barring Germany this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Denmark, where 2 percent reside and Switzerland, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Wölm
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