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 surname Wösten is found most frequently in Germany. It can also occur in the variant forms: Wosten. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Wösten? popularity and diffusion
It is the 998,609th most frequently used family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 28,466,976 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wösten reside; 99 percent reside in Western Europe and 99 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The last name Wösten is most widespread in Germany, where it is borne by 170 people, or 1 in 473,562. In Germany Wösten is primarily concentrated in: Lower Saxony, where 88 percent reside, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 11 percent reside and Berlin, where 1 percent reside. Besides Germany Wösten exists in 6 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 29 percent reside and Switzerland, where 3 percent reside.
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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