Plaksa Surname

264,801st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,478 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ukraine
Highest density in:
Ukraine

Plaksa Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plaksa Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ukraine9801:46,4526,746
Russia2331:618,55454,209
Belarus1971:48,2298,220
United States301:12,081,964463,456
Argentina171:2,514,318114,515
Germany81:10,063,182283,807
Canada51:7,369,118289,406
Latvia21:1,025,02341,546
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
England11:55,718,059489,080
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Transnistria11:474,69917,893

Plaksa (25) may also be a first name.

Plaksa Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Plaksa Come From? nationality or country of origin

Plaksa (Russian: Плакса) is held by more people in Ukraine than any other country or territory. It may also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Plaksa? popularity and diffusion

Plaksa is the 264,801st most common surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 4,930,681 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 94 percent of Plaksa reside; 94 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 94 percent reside in East Slavic Europe. Plaksa is also the 2,136,160th most common first name globally. It is borne by 25 people.

The surname Plaksa is most prevalent in Ukraine, where it is carried by 980 people, or 1 in 46,452. In Ukraine it is primarily concentrated in: Khmelnytskyi Oblast, where 19 percent live, Donetsk Oblast, where 10 percent live and Zhytomyr Oblast, where 9 percent live. Apart from Ukraine it exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 16 percent live and Belarus, where 13 percent live.

Plaksa Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Plaksa surname is primarily Orthodox (95%) in Russia, Orthodox (100%) in Belarus and Orthodox (78%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those holding the Plaksa surname are 14.34% more likely to be registered United Russias than The US average, with 61.11% being registered to vote for the political party.

Plaksa earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.19% more than the national average, earning $44,092 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Plakso8378/
Plaksy8318/
Plaksi832/
Pleksa831/
Plaksyi771,955/
Plaksiy77848/
Plaksey7731/
Plaksei772/
Plaksis771/
Plaxa7322/
Plaksijs712/
Placca671,953/
Plakcy6713/
Placsi672/
Phlaxa672/
Plaqza671/
Plakci671/
Plaxats6224/
Plaixats5711/
Pleixats577/
Pillacca572/
Plaxe5556/
Ploxa557/
Plexa556/
Placci50574/
Placco50420/
Plagce506/
Placce505/
Plaxii503/
Plekša501/
Plegza501/
Platxe501/

Plaksa Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Plaksa in the Russian language
Плаксаplaksa-

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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 Plaksa
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