Wöstenfeld Surname
Approximately 152 people bear this surname
Wöstenfeld Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 147 | 1:547,656 | 45,370 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
Wöstenfeld Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wöstenfeld Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wöstenfeld is more commonly found in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wöstenfeld? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,422,956th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 47,944,381 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Wöstenfeld reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
Wöstenfeld is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is held by 147 people, or 1 in 547,656. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 95 percent are found and Saxony, where 5 percent are found. Beside Germany Wöstenfeld is found in one country. It is also common in Switzerland, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wöstenfeldt | 95 | 2 | / |
| Westenfeld | 90 | 176 | / |
| Wastenfeld | 90 | 0 | / |
| Wuestenfeld | 86 | 91 | / |
| Weustenfeld | 86 | 59 | / |
| Westenfield | 86 | 50 | / |
| Westenfeldt | 86 | 16 | / |
| Wostenfeldt | 86 | 3 | / |
| Woestenfeld | 86 | 2 | / |
| Wuestenfield | 82 | 1 | / |
| Westenfieldt | 82 | 0 | / |
| Westenfelt | 80 | 38 | / |
| Vestenfeldt | 76 | 3 | / |
| Westinfelt | 70 | 0 | / |
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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 Wöstenfeld
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