Braça Surname
Approximately 8 people bear this surname
Braça Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Braca (3,178) & Brača (1) are calculated separately.
Braça Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Braça Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Braça has its highest incidence in Angola. It may also appear in the variant forms: Braca or Brača. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Braça? popularity and diffusion
Braça is the 6,723,624th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 50 percent of Braça reside; 50 percent reside in Southern Africa and 50 percent reside in Luso-Southern Africa.
The surname is most numerous in Angola, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 6,747,304. Apart from Angola this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Albania, where 25 percent are found and Brazil, where 13 percent are found.
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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 Braça
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