Peterfai Surname

3,432,070th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 33 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Croatia
Highest density in:
Croatia

Peterfai Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Peterfai Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Croatia291:145,81420,021
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288

The alternate forms: Péterfai (200) are calculated separately.

Peterfai Last Name Facts

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

Peterfai is held by more people in Croatia than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Péterfai. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Peterfai? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,432,070th most widely held surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 220,834,725 people. The last name Peterfai occurs predominantly in Europe, where 94 percent of Peterfai live; 88 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 88 percent live in South Slavic Europe.

The surname Peterfai is most numerous in Croatia, where it is carried by 29 people, or 1 in 145,814. In Croatia it is most numerous in: Zagreb County, where 31 percent live, Osijek-Baranja County, where 28 percent live and Virovitica-Podravina County, where 17 percent live. Other than Croatia this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 6 percent live and England, where 3 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Péterfai96200/
Peterfi93663/
Peterfaj8835/
Peterfay8812/
Peterfea881/
Peterfish8221/
Péterfi80431/
Peterfy8090/
Peaterfish780/
Peterffy7566/
Péterfay7527/
Petterfer711/
Piterfish710/
Péterfy67232/
Péterffy63171/
Pottorfe501/
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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 Peterfai
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