Palanas Surname
Approximately 2,886 people bear this surname
Palanas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 2,869 | 1:35,287 | 5,375 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Palañas (1) are calculated separately.
Palanas (11) may also be a first name.
Palanas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palanas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Palanas occurs more in The Philippines more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as: Palañas. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Palanas? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 152,471st most frequently occurring surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 2,525,137 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 99 percent of Palanas reside; 99 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 98 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. Palanas is also the 3,487,849th most commonly occurring first name in the world It is held by 11 people.
The surname Palanas is most commonly used in The Philippines, where it is held by 2,869 people, or 1 in 35,287. In The Philippines Palanas is most numerous in: Northern Mindanao, where 20 percent live, Zamboanga Peninsula, where 14 percent live and Eastern Visayas, where 12 percent live. Barring The Philippines it is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 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
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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
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