Lopata Surname
Approximately 6,209 people bear this surname
Lopata Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 2,522 | 1:18,050 | 2,473 |
| United States | 1,212 | 1:299,059 | 27,613 |
| Russia | 579 | 1:248,917 | 26,400 |
| Belarus | 333 | 1:28,532 | 4,955 |
| Czechia | 265 | 1:40,126 | 6,642 |
| Brazil | 180 | 1:1,189,302 | 41,172 |
| Germany | 173 | 1:465,349 | 40,819 |
| Romania | 122 | 1:164,573 | 17,104 |
| Moldova | 107 | 1:33,284 | 5,249 |
| France | 103 | 1:644,881 | 83,663 |
| Slovakia | 77 | 1:69,305 | 13,442 |
| Canada | 66 | 1:558,267 | 46,632 |
| Poland | 55 | 1:691,068 | 59,060 |
| Kazakhstan | 50 | 1:353,650 | 28,520 |
| Israel | 50 | 1:171,153 | 17,369 |
| England | 49 | 1:1,137,103 | 53,999 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Argentina | 41 | 1:1,042,522 | 64,438 |
| Austria | 25 | 1:340,617 | 36,996 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| Albania | 22 | 1:132,457 | 11,174 |
| Netherlands | 13 | 1:1,299,014 | 73,030 |
| Uruguay | 11 | 1:311,978 | 20,848 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| Transnistria | 7 | 1:67,814 | 9,165 |
| Mexico | 7 | 1:17,732,315 | 50,495 |
| Lithuania | 6 | 1:505,765 | 19,342 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Latvia | 4 | 1:512,512 | 30,386 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Kosovo | 2 | 1:930,934 | 12,188 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
The alternate forms: Lopată (34) are calculated separately.
Lopata (36) may also be a first name.
Lopata Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Polish) One who worked with a shovel.
(from an ancestor's occupation) “Shovel” or “oar,” in Polish. It is a name often used by a baker. Other forms are Lopatnik and Lopatnikov.
User-submitted Reference
This surname comes from a Slavic word that means 'shovel'.
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Lopata Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lopata Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lopata (Russian: Лопата) is most common in Ukraine. It may also be found as: Lopată. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Lopata? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 78,636th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 1,173,707 people. The last name Lopata occurs mostly in Europe, where 69 percent of Lopata are found; 62 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 52 percent are found in East Slavic Europe. It is also the 1,717,090th most widely held forename globally. It is borne by 36 people.
Lopata is most frequently used in Ukraine, where it is held by 2,522 people, or 1 in 18,050. In Ukraine it is most prevalent in: Kiev, where 19 percent live, Kiev Oblast, where 12 percent live and Luhansk Oblast, where 11 percent live. Excluding Ukraine this last name exists in 48 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 20 percent live and Russia, where 9 percent live.
Lopata Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Lopata has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Lopata surname grew 20,200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Lopata Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is chiefly Orthodox (84%) in Russia, Orthodox (96%) in Belarus, Orthodox (50%) in Kazakhstan and Orthodox (79%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Lopata last name are 1.44% more likely to be registered with the United Russia Party than the national average, with 48.21% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Lopata earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 12.94% more than the national average, earning $48,731 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.9% more than the national average, earning $50,130 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lopata Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lopata in the Russian language | ||
| Лопата | lopata | - |
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Lopata Reference & Research
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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
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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 Lopata
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