Posztos Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Posztos Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 84 | 1:116,860 | 11,030 |
| Romania | 36 | 1:557,719 | 41,269 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Germany | 5 | 1:16,101,092 | 397,699 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Posztós (326) & Posztóš (3) are calculated separately.
Posztos Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Posztos Come From? nationality or country of origin
Posztos is most common in Hungary. It can occur as a variant: Posztós or Posztóš. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Posztos? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,504,764th most commonly used surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 52,428,388 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 94 percent of Posztos reside; 87 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 60 percent reside in Hungaro-Europe.
The last name is most prevalent in Hungary, where it is held by 84 people, or 1 in 116,860. In Hungary it is most prevalent in: Pest County, where 38 percent reside, Budapest, where 23 percent reside and Somogy County, where 13 percent reside. Besides Hungary Posztos exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Romania, where 26 percent reside and Brazil, where 5 percent reside.
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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 Posztos
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