Birlea Surname
Approximately 1,266 people bear this surname
Birlea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1,059 | 1:18,959 | 2,448 |
| Moldova | 171 | 1:20,827 | 3,525 |
| Ireland | 14 | 1:336,353 | 12,021 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
The alternate forms: Bîrlea (386) are calculated separately.
Birlea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Birlea Come From? nationality or country of origin
Birlea is carried by more people in Romania than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Bîrlea. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Birlea? popularity and diffusion
It is the 300,337th most prevalent surname on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 5,756,355 people. Birlea occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Birlea live; 97 percent live in Eastern Europe and 97 percent live in Romanian Europe.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Romania, where it is borne by 1,059 people, or 1 in 18,959. In Romania it is primarily found in: Maramureș County, where 23 percent live, Alba County, where 19 percent live and Sibiu County, where 8 percent live. Besides Romania Birlea occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 14 percent live and Ireland, where 1 percent live.
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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
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