Meterna Surname

2,091,648th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 81 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Romania
Highest density in:
Romania

Meterna Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Meterna Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Romania771:260,75224,395
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

The alternate forms: Meternă (4) are calculated separately.

Meterna Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Meterna Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Meterna is carried by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Meternă. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Meterna? popularity and diffusion

The surname Meterna is the 2,091,648th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 89,969,703 people. The surname Meterna occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Meterna live; 95 percent live in Eastern Europe and 95 percent live in Romanian Europe.

Meterna is most common in Romania, where it is carried by 77 people, or 1 in 260,752. In Romania it is primarily found in: Brașov County, where 52 percent are found and Galați County, where 48 percent are found. Not including Romania it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.

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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 Meterna
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