Balça Surname
Approximately 153 people bear this surname
Balça Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 132 | 1:78,926 | 3,983 |
| Albania | 12 | 1:242,838 | 14,515 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Balca (918), Balcă (28) & Bâlcă (1) are calculated separately.
Balça Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Balça Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Balça has its highest incidence in Portugal. It can also appear as: Balca, Balcă or Bâlcă. Click here to see other potential spellings of Balça.
How Common Is The Last Name Balça? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,415,499th most frequent family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 47,631,019 people. The surname Balça occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Balça are found; 86 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 86 percent are found in Iberian Europe.
The surname Balça is most numerous in Portugal, where it is held by 132 people, or 1 in 78,926. Barring Portugal this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Albania, where 8 percent live and Angola, where 3 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 Balça
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