Gontescu Surname
Approximately 70 people bear this surname
Gontescu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 68 | 1:295,263 | 26,760 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
The alternate forms: Gonțescu (33) are calculated separately.
Gontescu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gontescu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gontescu is most common in Romania. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Gonțescu. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gontescu? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,273,756th most common family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 104,107,799 people. The surname Gontescu is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Gontescu reside; 99 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 99 percent reside in Romanian Europe.
This surname is most numerous in Romania, where it is carried by 68 people, or 1 in 295,263. In Romania it is primarily concentrated in: Buzău County, where 93 percent are found, Bucharest Municipality, where 6 percent are found and Brașov County, where 1 percent are found. Not including Romania this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent are found and Moldova, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gonțescu | 96 | 33 | / |
| Contescu | 88 | 96 | / |
| Guntescu | 88 | 4 | / |
| Condescu | 75 | 686 | / |
| Hantescu | 75 | 85 | / |
| Gonteski | 75 | 55 | / |
| Contascu | 75 | 28 | / |
| Gontesky | 75 | 8 | / |
| Conţescu | 75 | 4 | / |
| Gontsuga | 75 | 1 | / |
| Condeescu | 71 | 131 | / |
| Condiescu | 71 | 3 | / |
| Condesccu | 71 | 1 | / |
| Gontsok | 67 | 8 | / |
| Gantsuk | 67 | 7 | / |
| Gontzke | 67 | 4 | / |
| Gontsak | 67 | 4 | / |
| Gontsugawa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gontsik | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kontsuk | 67 | 1 | / |
| Gondesk | 67 | 0 | / |
| Gantiku | 53 | 2 | / |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Gontescu
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