Potema Surname
Approximately 43 people bear this surname
Potema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 37 | 1:1,230,343 | 106,187 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
Potema (24) may also be a first name.
Potema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potema Come From? nationality or country of origin
Potema (Oriya: େପାେଟମା, Russian: Потема) is held by more people in Ukraine than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Potema.
How Common Is The Last Name Potema? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,979,664th most common surname on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 169,477,812 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 93 percent of Potema live; 93 percent live in Eastern Europe and 93 percent live in East Slavic Europe. Potema is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 24 people.
The last name is most widely held in Ukraine, where it is carried by 37 people, or 1 in 1,230,343. In Ukraine Potema is most numerous in: Poltava Oblast, where 62 percent are found, Luhansk Oblast, where 27 percent are found and Zaporizhia Oblast, where 5 percent are found. Besides Ukraine this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Russia, where 9 percent are found and India, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Potema Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Potema in the Oriya language | ||
| େପାେଟମା | epaetama | - |
| Potema in the Russian language | ||
| Потема | potema | - |
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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 Potema
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