Petrakou Surname
Approximately 408 people bear this surname
Petrakou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 400 | 1:27,699 | 4,224 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Petrakou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petrakou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Petrakou occurs more in Greece more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Petrakou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 716,247th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 17,861,632 people. This last name is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Petrakou reside; 98 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 98 percent reside in Helleno-Europe.
Petrakou is most common in Greece, where it is carried by 400 people, or 1 in 27,699. In Greece Petrakou is most numerous in: Attica, where 49 percent live, Peloponnese, where 25 percent live and Western Greece, where 11 percent live. Apart from Greece Petrakou occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 0 percent live and Belarus, where 0 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
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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 Petrakou
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