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 borne by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant: Plećan or Plečan. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Plecan? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 1,001,271st most common family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 28,578,611 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 91 percent of Plecan reside; 69 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 51 percent reside in Romanian Europe.

The last name is most frequently occurring in Romania, where it is carried by 108 people, or 1 in 185,906. In Romania it is most frequent in: Suceava County, where 99 percent live and Bucharest Municipality, where 1 percent live. Besides Romania Plecan occurs 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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