Rapanu Surname
Approximately 140 people bear this surname
Rapanu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 120 | 1:167,316 | 17,344 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
The alternate forms: Râpanu (3) are calculated separately.
Rapanu (17) may also be a first name.
Rapanu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rapanu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Rapanu is found in Romania more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Râpanu. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Rapanu? popularity and diffusion
Rapanu is the 1,497,948th most frequently used last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 52,053,899 people. The surname Rapanu occurs predominantly in Europe, where 88 percent of Rapanu live; 86 percent live in Eastern Europe and 86 percent live in Romanian Europe. It is also the 2,694,839th most commonly held first name on earth, held by 17 people.
The surname Rapanu is most commonly used in Romania, where it is carried by 120 people, or 1 in 167,316. In Romania it is mostly found in: Vaslui County, where 44 percent reside, Iași County, where 23 percent reside and Argeș County, where 22 percent reside. Not including Romania it is found in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 12 percent reside and Spain, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Râpanu | 94 | 3 | / |
| Rapanut | 92 | 1,545 | / |
| Rapeanu | 92 | 460 | / |
| Rapanou | 92 | 54 | / |
| Rapangu | 92 | 7 | / |
| Rapanus | 92 | 1 | / |
| Hrapanu | 92 | 1 | / |
| Rapanui | 92 | 1 | / |
| Ratpanus | 86 | 4 | / |
| Ratpanud | 86 | 1 | / |
| Repanu | 83 | 13 | / |
| Raphanaud | 80 | 62 | / |
| Rapanault | 80 | 17 | / |
| Râpeanu | 77 | 45 | / |
| Repeanu | 77 | 30 | / |
| Repanou | 77 | 17 | / |
| Răpeanu | 77 | 10 | / |
| Roopanu | 77 | 8 | / |
| Rodpanu | 77 | 1 | / |
| Rapongu | 77 | 1 | / |
| Ropenu | 67 | 107 | / |
| Reponu | 67 | 1 | / |
| Roponus | 62 | 24 | / |
| Ropenui | 62 | 5 | / |
| Ropönus | 62 | 4 | / |
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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 Rapanu
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