Brigadeiro Surname

1,252,959th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 184 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Portugal

Brigadeiro Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Brigadeiro Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil1181:1,814,18958,634
Portugal571:182,7767,697
Angola41:6,747,3046,999
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
France11:66,422,722504,397
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Brigadeiro (14) may also be a first name.

Brigadeiro Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Brigadeiro Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Brigadeiro is borne by more people in Brazil than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Brigadeiro? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,252,959th most numerous last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 66 percent of Brigadeiro live; 64 percent live in South America and 64 percent live in Luso-South America. It is also the 3,024,661st most commonly held first name internationally, borne by 14 people.

The surname Brigadeiro is most common in Brazil, where it is borne by 118 people, or 1 in 1,814,189. In Brazil it is most prevalent in: São Paulo, where 53 percent live, Bahia, where 19 percent live and Paraná, where 8 percent live. Apart from Brazil this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 31 percent live and Angola, where 2 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
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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 Brigadeiro
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