Petanic Surname

6,360,413th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 9 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Switzerland
Highest density in:
Switzerland

Petanic Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Petanic Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Switzerland61:1,368,81977,571
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

The alternate forms: Petanić (48) are calculated separately.

Petanic Last Name Facts

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

The surname Petanic occurs most in Switzerland. It may occur in the variant forms: Petanić. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Petanic? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 6,360,413th most common family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 809,727,324 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 67 percent of Petanic live; 67 percent live in Western Europe and 67 percent live in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most widely held in Switzerland, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 1,368,819. In Switzerland Petanic is mostly concentrated in: Canton of Basel-Landschaft, where 100 percent reside. Other than Switzerland this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 22 percent reside and Canada, where 11 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
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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 Petanic
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