Petchy Surname
Approximately 332 people bear this surname
Petchy Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 323 | 1:205,643 | 31,948 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 27 | 1:902,791 | 38,028 |
Petchy (158) may also be a first name.
Petchy Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petchy Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Petchy has its highest incidence in France. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Petchy click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Petchy? popularity and diffusion
It is the 832,284th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 21,950,440 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 91 percent of Petchy are found; 84 percent are found in South America and 84 percent are found in Gallo-Germanic South America. It is also the 730,165th most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 158 people.
The last name Petchy is most prevalent in France, where it is borne by 323 people, or 1 in 205,643. In France Petchy is primarily concentrated in: French Guiana, where 87 percent are found, Réunion, where 7 percent are found and Guadeloupe, where 6 percent are found. Excluding France it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in England, where 1 percent are found and Thailand, where 1 percent are found.
Petchy Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Petchy has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Petchy last name declined 89 percent between 1881 and 2014.
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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 Petchy
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