Petea Surname
Approximately 201 people bear this surname
Petea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 116 | 1:173,085 | 17,821 |
| Italy | 26 | 1:2,352,180 | 93,058 |
| Brazil | 22 | 1:9,730,651 | 206,332 |
| Uruguay | 15 | 1:228,784 | 17,372 |
| Moldova | 7 | 1:508,767 | 32,975 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Pețea (1) are calculated separately.
Petea (238) may also be a first name.
Petea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petea Come From? nationality or country of origin
Petea is held by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Pețea. Click here for further possible spellings of Petea.
How Common Is The Last Name Petea? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,181,191st most frequently held last name in the world, held by around 1 in 36,256,447 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 75 percent of Petea live; 62 percent live in Eastern Europe and 61 percent live in Romanian Europe. Petea is also the 580,229th most frequently used first name on earth, held by 238 people.
Petea is most commonly used in Romania, where it is borne by 116 people, or 1 in 173,085. In Romania it is primarily concentrated in: Hunedoara County, where 97 percent reside and Olt County, where 3 percent reside. Barring Romania this last name occurs in 16 countries. It is also common in Italy, where 13 percent reside and Brazil, 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
- 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 Petea
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