Plapana Surname

2,106,139th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 80 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Romania
Highest density in:
Romania

Plapana Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plapana Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Romania771:260,75224,395
France11:66,422,722504,397
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

The alternate forms: Plăpană (1) are calculated separately.

Plapana Last Name Facts

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

The surname Plapana occurs in Romania more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Plăpană. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Plapana? popularity and diffusion

Plapana is the 2,106,139th most frequently used surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 91,094,324 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Plapana are found; 96 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 96 percent are found in Romanian Europe.

The surname Plapana is most commonly held in Romania, where it is held by 77 people, or 1 in 260,752. In Romania Plapana is most frequent in: Buzău County, where 96 percent are found, Brăila County, where 1 percent are found and Constanța County, where 1 percent are found. Other than Romania it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in France, where 1 percent are found and Greece, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Plăpană901/
Pillapana882/
Plapane861/
Phlaphanga824/
Pillappanah781/
Ploypanich591/
Phloiphanit5651/
Plauspeiner563/
Pleepono531/
Ploponio531/

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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 Plapana
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