Petreacă Surname
Approximately 62 people bear this surname
Petreacă Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 61 | 1:329,145 | 28,853 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Petreaca (156) are calculated separately.
Petreacă Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petreacă Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Petreacă occurs in Romania more than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant: Petreaca. For other potential spellings of Petreacă click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Petreacă? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,436,415th most widely held surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 117,541,063 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Petreacă reside; 98 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 98 percent reside in Romanian Europe.
It is most commonly held in Romania, where it is borne by 61 people, or 1 in 329,145. In Romania Petreacă is most numerous in: Teleorman County, where 98 percent reside and Bucharest Municipality, where 2 percent reside. Apart from Romania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 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 Petreacă
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