Briga Surname
Approximately 1,271 people bear this surname
Briga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 356 | 1:171,788 | 25,959 |
| Benin | 241 | 1:42,886 | 5,494 |
| Argentina | 200 | 1:213,717 | 17,610 |
| Portugal | 104 | 1:100,175 | 4,850 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 74 | 1:47,789 | 6,111 |
| Brazil | 70 | 1:3,058,205 | 88,974 |
| Ivory Coast | 45 | 1:512,694 | 16,131 |
| United States | 30 | 1:12,081,964 | 463,456 |
| Russia | 25 | 1:5,764,922 | 242,644 |
| Hungary | 22 | 1:446,194 | 29,593 |
| Latvia | 15 | 1:136,670 | 19,278 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Belarus | 13 | 1:730,851 | 59,297 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Libya | 4 | 1:1,560,994 | 3,087 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Croatia | 4 | 1:1,057,151 | 57,892 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
The alternate forms: Brigà (1) are calculated separately.
Briga (239) may also be a first name.
Briga Demographics
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Briga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Briga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Briga (Hindi: बृगा, Russian: Брига) is more commonly found in Italy than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Brigà. For other potential spellings of Briga click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Briga? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 299,328th most numerous family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,733,710 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 50 percent of Briga reside; 36 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 28 percent reside in Italic Europe. Briga is also the 578,640th most frequent forename throughout the world. It is borne by 239 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Italy, where it is carried by 356 people, or 1 in 171,788. In Italy it is most common in: Sicily, where 37 percent are found, Apulia, where 28 percent are found and Lombardy, where 13 percent are found. Barring Italy it occurs in 41 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 19 percent are found and Argentina, where 16 percent are found.
Briga Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Briga surname are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 60% being registered with the party.
The amount Briga earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Italy they earn 31.7% less than the national average, earning €20,511 per year and in United States they earn 19.54% less than the national average, earning $34,719 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Briga Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Briga in the Hindi language | ||
| बृगा | brga | - |
| Briga in the Russian language | ||
| Брига | briga | - |
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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 Briga
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