Plaka Surname
Approximately 2,781 people bear this surname
Plaka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 1,863 | 1:1,564 | 230 |
| Greece | 750 | 1:14,773 | 2,021 |
| Northern Cyprus | 33 | 1:9,667 | 2,436 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| Russia | 25 | 1:5,764,922 | 242,644 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| United States | 12 | 1:30,204,911 | 765,334 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Italy | 11 | 1:5,559,699 | 110,230 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Pláka (1) are calculated separately.
Plaka (14) may also be a first name.
Plaka Demographics
Average Plaka Salary in
United States
$40,562 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Plaka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plaka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Plaka (Arabic: بلاكا, Russian: Плака) has its highest incidence in Albania. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Pláka. For other potential spellings of Plaka click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plaka? popularity and diffusion
The surname Plaka is the 157,284th most widely held last name in the world, held by around 1 in 2,620,477 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 97 percent of Plaka live; 95 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 67 percent live in Albano-Europe. It is also the 3,024,661st most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 14 people.
It is most frequent in Albania, where it is borne by 1,863 people, or 1 in 1,564. In Albania Plaka is mostly concentrated in: Elbasan County, where 60 percent live, Fier County, where 23 percent live and Berat County, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account Albania it occurs in 24 countries. It also occurs in Greece, where 27 percent live and Northern Cyprus, where 1 percent live.
Plaka Last Name Statistics demography
Plaka earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 6% less than the national average, earning $40,562 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Plaka Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Plaka in the Russian language | ||
| Плака | plaka | - |
| Plaka in the Arabic language | ||
| بلاكا | blaka | - |
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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 Plaka
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