Etelä Surname
Approximately 87 people bear this surname
Etelä Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 81 | 1:67,861 | 7,618 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
The alternate forms: Etela (318) are calculated separately.
Etelä Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Etelä Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Etelä is found most frequently in Finland. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Etela. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Etelä? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,007,164th most frequent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 83,764,896 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Etelä are found; 100 percent are found in Northern Europe and 100 percent are found in Scandinavia.
The surname Etelä is most frequent in Finland, where it is carried by 81 people, or 1 in 67,861. In Finland it is mostly concentrated in: Uusimaa, where 40 percent reside, Central Finland, where 20 percent reside and Northern Ostrobothnia, where 15 percent reside. Barring Finland Etelä exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 6 percent reside and Norway, where 1 percent reside.
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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
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