Potoč Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Potoč Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 24 | 1:222,352 | 35,659 |
| Czechia | 14 | 1:759,534 | 67,321 |
| Croatia | 4 | 1:1,057,151 | 57,892 |
The alternate forms: Potoc (66) are calculated separately.
Potoč Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Potoč Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Potoč is more commonly found in Slovakia than any other country or territory. It may occur as: Potoc. Click here for other possible spellings of Potoč.
How Common Is The Last Name Potoč? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,017,195th most widely held surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. Potoč occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Potoč live; 90 percent live in Eastern Europe and 90 percent live in West Slavic Europe.
The last name is most commonly used in Slovakia, where it is held by 24 people, or 1 in 222,352. In Slovakia Potoč is most prevalent in: Nitra Region, where 63 percent live, Žilina Region, where 29 percent live and Bratislava Region, where 4 percent live. Besides Slovakia it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Czechia, where 33 percent live and Croatia, where 10 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 Potoč
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