Dorcea Surname
Approximately 170 people bear this surname
Dorcea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 166 | 1:120,951 | 13,337 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Dorcea (121) may also be a first name.
Dorcea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dorcea Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dorcea is more frequently found in Romania than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dorcea? popularity and diffusion
The surname Dorcea is the 1,321,499th most commonly used last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 42,867,917 people. Dorcea occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Dorcea reside; 98 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 98 percent reside in Romanian Europe. It is also the 848,089th most commonly occurring first name world-wide. It is borne by 121 people.
Dorcea is most commonly held in Romania, where it is held by 166 people, or 1 in 120,951. In Romania it is most common in: Teleorman County, where 48 percent live, Giurgiu County, where 33 percent live and Bucharest Municipality, where 16 percent live. Apart from Romania this last name is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, 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
- 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 Dorcea
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