Poteca Surname
Approximately 220 people bear this surname
Poteca Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 182 | 1:110,318 | 12,370 |
| Argentina | 34 | 1:1,257,159 | 73,489 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
The alternate forms: Potecă (71) are calculated separately.
Poteca Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Poteca Come From? nationality or country of origin
Poteca is borne by more people in Romania than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant: Potecă. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Poteca? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,108,016th most frequently used last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 33,125,209 people. The surname Poteca is primarily found in Europe, where 85 percent of Poteca are found; 83 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 83 percent are found in Romanian Europe.
The surname is most widely held in Romania, where it is borne by 182 people, or 1 in 110,318. In Romania it is most common in: Teleorman County, where 33 percent reside, Buzău County, where 29 percent reside and Prahova County, where 24 percent reside. Beside Romania this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 15 percent reside and Italy, where 1 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 Poteca
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