Penalan Surname

8,968,613th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Qatar

Penalan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Penalan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

The alternate forms: Peñalan (87) are calculated separately.

Penalan Last Name Facts

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

Penalan occurs in Australia more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Peñalan. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Penalan? popularity and diffusion

The surname Penalan is the 8,968,613th most widely held surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. Penalan is primarily found in Asia, where 75 percent of Penalan reside; 25 percent reside in South Asia and 25 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.

Penalan is most frequently held in Australia, where it is borne by 1 people, or 1 in 26,995,701. In Australia it is mostly found in: New South Wales, where 100 percent live. Barring Australia this surname is found in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 25 percent live and The Philippines, where 25 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 Penalan
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