Potolea Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Potolea Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 128 | 1:156,858 | 16,457 |
| Moldova | 7 | 1:508,767 | 32,975 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
Potolea Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potolea Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Potolea is held by more people in Romania than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Potolea? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,465,390th most commonly occurring surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 94 percent of Potolea are found; 93 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 93 percent are found in Romanian Europe.
The surname is most widely held in Romania, where it is held by 128 people, or 1 in 156,858. In Romania it is most frequent in: Galați County, where 65 percent reside, Tulcea County, where 27 percent reside and Cluj County, where 3 percent reside. Besides Romania it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Moldova, where 5 percent reside and The United States, where 3 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 Potolea
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