Grets Surname
Approximately 333 people bear this surname
Grets Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 267 | 1:539,787 | 48,881 |
| Kazakhstan | 43 | 1:411,221 | 31,868 |
| Belarus | 9 | 1:1,055,673 | 72,859 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Gréts (3) are calculated separately.
Grets (11) may also be a first name.
Grets Demographics
Grets Political Affiliation
in Russia
Russia
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Grets Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Grets Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Grets (Russian: Грец) is held by more people in Russia than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Gréts. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Grets? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 830,559th most prevalent family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 21,884,522 people. The last name Grets is predominantly found in Europe, where 56 percent of Grets live; 55 percent live in Eastern Europe and 55 percent live in East Slavic Europe. It is also the 3,487,849th most commonly used given name globally, held by 11 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Russia, where it is held by 267 people, or 1 in 539,787. In Russia Grets is mostly found in: Autonomous Republic of Crimea, where 13 percent live, Chelyabinsk Oblast, where 8 percent live and Moscow, where 8 percent live. Not including Russia it exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Kazakhstan, where 13 percent live and Belarus, where 3 percent live.
Grets Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is predominantly Orthodox (75%) in Russia and Orthodox (92%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Grets surname are 8.79% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than the national average, with 55.56% being registered with the political party.
Phonetically Similar Names
Grets Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Grets in the Russian language | ||
| Грец | grec | - |
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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 Grets
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