Orrù Surname
Approximately 910 people bear this surname
Orrù Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 880 | 1:69,496 | 12,304 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Orru (8,963), Orrú (16) & Orrü (2) are calculated separately.
Orrù Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orrù Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Orrù is carried by more people in Italy than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Orru, Orrú or Orrü. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Orrù? popularity and diffusion
Orrù is the 389,400th most widespread last name globally It is held by around 1 in 8,008,292 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Orrù live; 98 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 97 percent live in Italic Europe.
The last name Orrù is most commonly occurring in Italy, where it is held by 880 people, or 1 in 69,496. In Italy it is primarily concentrated in: Sardinia, where 79 percent reside, Lazio, where 8 percent reside and Lombardy, where 4 percent reside. Excluding Italy this surname occurs in 13 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 1 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Orrù
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