Wösten Surname
Approximately 256 people bear this surname
Wösten Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 170 | 1:473,562 | 41,271 |
| Netherlands | 74 | 1:228,205 | 30,213 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Wosten (102) are calculated separately.
Wösten Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wösten Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wösten is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant: Wosten. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wösten? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wösten is the 998,609th most widespread last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 28,466,976 people. The last name Wösten occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wösten live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The last name is most frequent in Germany, where it is held by 170 people, or 1 in 473,562. In Germany Wösten is most frequent in: Lower Saxony, where 88 percent are found, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 11 percent are found and Berlin, where 1 percent are found. Other than Germany it is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 29 percent are found and Switzerland, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wosten | 94 | 102 | / |
| Westen | 83 | 1,941 | / |
| Wasten | 83 | 5 | / |
| Wöstyn | 83 | 1 | / |
| Weusten | 77 | 505 | / |
| Westeen | 77 | 132 | / |
| Wösting | 77 | 65 | / |
| Westien | 77 | 27 | / |
| Woesten | 77 | 24 | / |
| Wuesten | 77 | 14 | / |
| Washten | 77 | 7 | / |
| Westenn | 77 | 0 | / |
| Westn | 73 | 2 | / |
| Washtien | 71 | 7 | / |
| Westin | 67 | 6,123 | / |
| Wastyn | 67 | 370 | / |
| Westyn | 67 | 65 | / |
| Westén | 67 | 45 | / |
| Wastin | 67 | 43 | / |
| Vesten | 67 | 30 | / |
| Vasten | 67 | 20 | / |
| Vosten | 67 | 14 | / |
| Uesten | 67 | 6 | / |
| Wostin | 67 | 3 | / |
| Washtn | 67 | 2 | / |
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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 Wösten
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