Plessey Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Plessey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
Plessey (10) may also be a first name.
Plessey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Plessey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Plessey is found in Australia more than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Plessey? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 6,063,924th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 728,754,592 people. The last name Plessey is mostly found in Oceania, where 70 percent of Plessey live; 70 percent live in Australasia and 70 percent live in Australia and New Zealand. It is also the 3,684,242nd most commonly used first name in the world. It is borne by 10 people.
It is most numerous in Australia, where it is carried by 7 people, or 1 in 3,856,529. In Australia Plessey is most prevalent in: Victoria, where 86 percent live and Western Australia, where 14 percent live. Barring Australia this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 30 percent live.
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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 Plessey
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