Plescan Surname
Approximately 1,929 people bear this surname
Plescan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1,571 | 1:12,780 | 1,631 |
| Moldova | 238 | 1:14,964 | 2,555 |
| Spain | 61 | 1:766,427 | 32,250 |
| Italy | 15 | 1:4,077,113 | 105,022 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Denmark | 9 | 1:627,191 | 36,734 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Transnistria | 4 | 1:118,675 | 12,470 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
The alternate forms: Pleșcan (190) & Pleşcan (153) are calculated separately.
Plescan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plescan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Plescan is held by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as: Pleșcan or Pleşcan. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Plescan? popularity and diffusion
The surname Plescan is the 213,453rd most frequently used surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 3,777,888 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 99 percent of Plescan live; 94 percent live in Eastern Europe and 94 percent live in Romanian Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in Romania, where it is borne by 1,571 people, or 1 in 12,780. In Romania Plescan is primarily found in: Iași County, where 29 percent are found, Galați County, where 25 percent are found and Neamț County, where 8 percent are found. Other than Romania this surname exists in 17 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 12 percent are found and Spain, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleșcan | 95 | 190 | / |
| Pleşcan | 95 | 153 | / |
| Pleshcan | 93 | 5 | / |
| Pleschan | 93 | 1 | / |
| Plecan | 92 | 255 | / |
| Pleshchan | 88 | 1 | / |
| Pleskan | 86 | 275 | / |
| Ploscan | 86 | 70 | / |
| Pleckan | 86 | 12 | / |
| Plascan | 86 | 3 | / |
| Pleshkan | 80 | 1,033 | / |
| Pleszkan | 80 | 21 | / |
| Plechkan | 80 | 15 | / |
| Pleckane | 80 | 7 | / |
| Pleskane | 80 | 5 | / |
| Pleåžcan | 80 | 1 | / |
| Plekan | 77 | 883 | / |
| Plican | 77 | 35 | / |
| Plaskan | 71 | 164 | / |
| Plekhan | 71 | 46 | / |
| Ploskan | 71 | 33 | / |
| Plyskan | 71 | 28 | / |
| Pleskanova | 71 | 12 | / |
| Pleekan | 71 | 5 | / |
| Pletkan | 71 | 4 | / |
| Pleskon | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pleckam | 71 | 1 | / |
| Plascon | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pliskan | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pliekan | 71 | 1 | / |
| Pellican | 67 | 152 | / |
| Pleszkán | 67 | 59 | / |
| Pleckham | 67 | 51 | / |
| Pleekhan | 67 | 20 | / |
| Plyshkan | 67 | 14 | / |
| Pleshkanova | 67 | 13 | / |
| Plishkan | 67 | 5 | / |
| Pleekang | 67 | 2 | / |
| Plychkan | 67 | 2 | / |
| Pellecon | 67 | 1 | / |
| Pleukhan | 67 | 1 | / |
| Plickhan | 67 | 0 | / |
| Pillican | 67 | 0 | / |
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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 Plescan
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