Ripeanu Surname
Approximately 504 people bear this surname
Ripeanu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 496 | 1:40,480 | 5,150 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
The alternate forms: Rîpeanu (139) are calculated separately.
Ripeanu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ripeanu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ripeanu is found most frequently in Romania. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Rîpeanu. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ripeanu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ripeanu is the 612,595th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 14,459,416 people. This last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Ripeanu live; 98 percent live in Eastern Europe and 98 percent live in Romanian Europe.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Romania, where it is borne by 496 people, or 1 in 40,480. In Romania Ripeanu is mostly found in: Vâlcea County, where 24 percent reside, Buzău County, where 21 percent reside and Brașov County, where 18 percent reside. Besides Romania Ripeanu is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 1 percent reside and Sweden, where 0 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
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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 Ripeanu
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