Posena Surname
Approximately 88 people bear this surname
Posena Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 63 | 1:129,424 | 17,695 |
| India | 18 | 1:42,614,743 | 461,117 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Poseña (32) are calculated separately.
Posena (60) may also be a first name.
Posena Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Posena Come From? nationality or country of origin
Posena has its highest incidence in Papua New Guinea. It may also appear in the variant forms: Poseña. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Posena? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,994,173rd most common surname globally It is held by around 1 in 82,813,022 people. It is predominantly found in Oceania, where 72 percent of Posena are found; 72 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 72 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Posena is also the 1,270,172nd most frequently occurring forename world-wide, held by 60 people.
It is most common in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 63 people, or 1 in 129,424. In Papua New Guinea Posena is primarily concentrated in: Bougainville, where 98 percent live and East New Britain, where 2 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea it is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in India, where 20 percent live and Brazil, where 5 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 Posena
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