Palassa Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Palassa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 143 | 1:145,238 | 16,093 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Palassa (57) may also be a first name.
Palassa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Palassa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Palassa has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Palassa.
How Common Is The Last Name Palassa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Palassa is the 1,465,390th most frequently held surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Palassa reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 78 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 1,308,380th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 57 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is held by 143 people, or 1 in 145,238. In Cameroon it is most common in: Far North Region, where 93 percent live, North Region, where 6 percent live and Centre Region, where 1 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Belarus, where 1 percent live and Benin, where 1 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 Palassa
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