Petroaia Surname
Approximately 227 people bear this surname
Petroaia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 225 | 1:89,235 | 10,329 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Petroaia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petroaia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Petroaia is held by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Petroaia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,085,744th most frequently held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 32,103,727 people. Petroaia is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Petroaia are found; 99 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 99 percent are found in Romanian Europe.
Petroaia is most frequently held in Romania, where it is borne by 225 people, or 1 in 89,235. In Romania it is most common in: Iași County, where 63 percent live, Neamț County, where 23 percent live and Suceava County, where 13 percent live. Not including Romania this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 0 percent live and Scotland, 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
- 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 Petroaia
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