Petrovas Surname
Approximately 472 people bear this surname
Petrovas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania | 218 | 1:13,920 | 2,554 |
| Greece | 147 | 1:75,373 | 12,701 |
| United States | 48 | 1:7,551,228 | 341,161 |
| Ireland | 17 | 1:276,996 | 9,887 |
| Canada | 12 | 1:3,070,466 | 169,836 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Norway | 6 | 1:857,048 | 55,549 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Petrovas Demographics
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Petrovas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Petrovas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Petrovas (Russian: Петровас) is held by more people in Lithuania than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Petrovas? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 642,991st most frequently used last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 15,439,716 people. The last name Petrovas occurs mostly in Europe, where 86 percent of Petrovas live; 53 percent live in Northern Europe and 46 percent live in Baltic Europe.
The surname is most frequently used in Lithuania, where it is held by 218 people, or 1 in 13,920. In Lithuania Petrovas is primarily concentrated in: Vilnius County, where 59 percent reside, Kaunas County, where 33 percent reside and Klaipėda County, where 2 percent reside. Excluding Lithuania it exists in 12 countries. It is also common in Greece, where 31 percent reside and The United States, where 10 percent reside.
Petrovas Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Petrovas has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Petrovas last name grew 4,800 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Petrovas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Petrovas last name are 7.08% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 53.85% registered to vote for the party.
Petrovas earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.76% less than the national average, earning $41,525 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Petrovas Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Petrovas in the Russian language | ||
| Петровас | petrovas | - |
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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 Petrovas
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