Mataca Surname
Approximately 122 people bear this surname
Mataca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 72 | 1:278,859 | 25,610 |
| India | 36 | 1:21,307,372 | 304,812 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
The alternate forms: Matacă (6) are calculated separately.
Mataca (70) may also be a first name.
Mataca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mataca Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mataca is found most frequently in Romania. It may also appear as a variant: Matacă. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mataca? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,637,889th most widely held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 59,733,983 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 62 percent of Mataca live; 59 percent live in Eastern Europe and 59 percent live in Romanian Europe. It is also the 1,162,016th most frequently occurring forename at a global level, borne by 70 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Romania, where it is held by 72 people, or 1 in 278,859. In Romania it is most numerous in: Bucharest Municipality, where 94 percent live and Gorj County, where 6 percent live. Outside of Romania this last name exists in 10 countries. It is also found in India, where 30 percent live and Mozambique, where 3 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 Mataca
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