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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 in Europe, experts at PsychicWorld.comExternal Link collated a seed list of the 15 most popular phobias and analysed average monthly Google search volumes for each one across all countries included in the study.

Key Findings

  • Trypophobia is the most common phobia among people in Europe, with an average monthly search volume of 273,150, which is a fear of holes. Trypophobia is also the most common phobia among people in Germany with 22,600 total searches in the country.

  • In second is Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) with 121,800 online monthly searches.

  • Acrophobia (fear of heights—30,390) is third, followed by Claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces—26,260) and Arachnophobia (fear of spiders—22,380).

The most common phobias in Europe 

Ranking

Phobia

Phobia Meanings

Total Average Monthly Online Searches

1

Trypophobia

fear of holes

273,150

2

Agoraphobia

fear of open spaces

121,800

3

Acrophobia

fear of heights

30,390

4

Claustrophobia

fear of confined spaces

26,260

5

Arachnophobia

fear of spiders

22,380

6

Thanatophobia

fear of death

12,080

7

Trypanophobia

fear of needles

11,220

8

Ophidiophobia

fear of snakes

8,510

9

Mysophobia

fear of germs

8,430

10

Cynophobia

fear of dogs

6,790

11

Monophobia

fear of being alone

6,070

12

Social Phobia

fear of social situations

4,870

13

Aerophobia

fear of flying

4,430

14

Astraphobia

fear of thunderstorms

4,060

15

Hemophobia

fear of blood

3,520

The most common phobia in Europe is Trypophobia. Trypophobia, which is a fear of a cluster of small holes, bumps, or patterns, received an average of 273,150 online searches per month. 

In second place is Agoraphobia, with an average of 121,800 monthly online searches in Europe. Agoraphobia is the fear of places or situations that can make you feel trapped, such as open spaces or big crowds.

Ranking third is Acrophobia (fear of heights), with a total of 30,390 online searches per month, followed by Claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces—26,260) in fourth and Arachnophobia (fear of snakes—22,380) in fifth.

And the least common phobia in Europe is …

The least common phobia in Europe is Hemophobia (fear of blood), which received a total of 3,520 online searches per month.

Methodology

  1. PsychicWorld.comExternal Link sought to discover the most common phobias people have throughout Europe.

  2. ​A comprehensive seed list of popular phobias was compiled utilising multiple websites, including: Verywell MindExternal Link, MedicineNetExternal Link, Money IncExternal Link, The International Psychology ClinicExternal Link and KnowinsidersExternal Link. Only phobias that appeared more than once across the different articles were taken into consideration.

  3. ​A refined list of 15 phobias was collated.

  4. Following, a complete list of all 44 countries in Europe was extracted from WorldometerExternal Link. The following countries were omitted from the research, due to lack of data: Holy See, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino. Out of 44 European countries in total, data was collected and amalgamated for 40.

  5. Average monthly search volumes for each phobia across all countries were then gathered utilising the search analytics tool AhrefsExternal Link. Search volumes for keyword variations, such as: fear of heights, fear of spiders and fear of flying were also collected in order to obtain accurate results.

  6. All phobias were then ranked based on the number of countries they had appeared in, so that the most common phobia could be determined.

  7. All data was collected between 23—24 February 2022 and is subject to change.