Plecan Surname

1,001,271st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 255 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Romania
Highest density in:
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Plecan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plecan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Romania1081:185,90618,848
Bosnia and Herzegovina481:73,6757,508
Poland411:927,04369,048
Moldova231:154,84216,100
United States181:20,136,607622,629
Czechia31:3,544,490144,714
Norway31:1,714,09579,528
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
England11:55,718,059489,080
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955

The alternate forms: Plećan (30) & Plečan (3) are calculated separately.

Plecan Last Name Facts

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

Plecan is most common in Romania. It may also occur in the variant forms: Plećan or Plečan. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Plecan? popularity and diffusion

The surname Plecan is the 1,001,271st most numerous last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 28,578,611 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 91 percent of Plecan are found; 69 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 51 percent are found in Romanian Europe.

Plecan is most commonly used in Romania, where it is carried by 108 people, or 1 in 185,906. In Romania Plecan is most numerous in: Suceava County, where 99 percent live and Bucharest Municipality, where 1 percent live. Other than Romania this last name exists in 13 countries. It is also common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 19 percent live and Poland, where 16 percent live.

Plecan Last Name Statistics demography

Plecan earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.35% less than the national average, earning $36,094 USD per year.

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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 Plecan
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