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Trypophobia Revealed As Brits' Biggest Phobia
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Ever wondered if someone else shares your paralysing fear of spiders, heights, or snakes?
Intrigued to find out which are the most common phobias throughout Europe and the USA, experts at
PsychicWorld.com collated a seed list of the 15 most popular phobias and analysed the monthly average Google search volumes for each one across all countries included in the study.
Key Findings
The most common phobia among people in the UK, with an average monthly search volume of 120,000, is trypophobia, which is a fear of holes.
First place for the most popular phobia across all of Europe and the USA is shared by claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) and trypophobia (fear of holes).
Hemophobia (fear of blood) is the least common phobia, appearing in the search volumes of only 12 out of the 41 analysed countries in the study.
Here are the most common phobias throughout Europe and the USA ranked…
Ranking |
Phobia |
Total Number of Average Monthly Search Volumes |
Phobia Meanings |
Number of Countries Searching the Phobia |
1= |
Claustrophobia |
56,460 |
fear of confined spaces |
41 |
1= |
Trypophobia |
812,150 |
fear of holes |
41 |
2= |
Acrophobia |
56,990 |
fear of heights |
40 |
2= |
Agoraphobia |
570,400 |
fear of open spaces |
40 |
3= |
Arachnophobia |
88,480 |
fear of spiders |
38 |
3= |
Thanatophobia |
35,180 |
fear of death |
38 |
4= |
Trypanophobia |
37,220 |
fear of needles |
34 |
4= |
Monophobia |
24,770 |
fear of being alone |
34 |
5 |
Cynophobia |
20,390 |
fear of dogs |
33 |
6= |
Aerophobia |
14,230 |
fear of flying |
30 |
6= |
Mysophobia |
28,830 |
fear of germs |
30 |
7 |
Astraphobia |
14,460 |
fear of thunderstorms |
29 |
8 |
Social Phobia |
14,820 |
fear of social situations |
27 |
9 |
Ophidiophobia |
24,510 |
fear of snakes |
24 |
10 |
Hemophobia |
19,920 |
fear of blood |
12 |
The first place for the most common phobia goes to both claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) and trypophobia (fear of holes), appearing in the average search volumes of all 41 researched countries. However, the latter has the highest overall search volume of all phobias - 812,150. Trypohobia is also the number one phobia, based on search volumes, in 39 of the countries analysed.
Second place is also shared by two phobias - acrophobia (fear of heights) and agoraphobia (fear of open spaces). Both fears were searched for in 40 of the countries.
Being in the average search volumes of 38 countries, arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and thanatophobia (fear of death) share the third place. Fear of spiders also places third when it comes to overall number of search volumes, having 88,480. While fear of death holds a total of 35,180.
Ranking in fourth place are trypanophobia (fear of needles) and monophobia (fear of being alone). Both were present in 34 countries. And fifth ranks cynophobia (fear of dogs) - part of the search volumes of 33 countries.
Agoraphobia comes in second place for total number of search volumes (570,400) as well and is the number one fear in three countries (Belarus, Czech Republic and Malta).
And the least common phobia is…
Appearing in the search volumes of only 12 countries in total (29 less than trypophobia in first place), hemophobia (fear of blood) ranks last in the research.
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