Cherestes Surname
Approximately 142 people bear this surname
Cherestes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 118 | 1:170,151 | 17,581 |
| Hungary | 13 | 1:755,098 | 40,181 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
The alternate forms: Cheresteş (1) & Cheresteș (1) are calculated separately.
Cherestes Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cherestes Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cherestes is more commonly found in Romania than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Cheresteş or Cheresteș. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cherestes? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,484,726th most frequently held family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 51,320,746 people. The surname Cherestes is predominantly found in Europe, where 95 percent of Cherestes live; 92 percent live in Eastern Europe and 83 percent live in Romanian Europe.
The last name Cherestes is most prevalent in Romania, where it is carried by 118 people, or 1 in 170,151. In Romania Cherestes is most prevalent in: Bistrița-Năsăud County, where 57 percent are found, Cluj County, where 34 percent are found and Brașov County, where 3 percent are found. Other than Romania it exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Hungary, where 9 percent are found and Canada, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Cherestes
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