Cajas Surname
Approximately 18,104 people bear this surname
Cajas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 7,482 | 1:2,126 | 371 |
| Guatemala | 3,670 | 1:4,382 | 627 |
| Peru | 3,173 | 1:10,017 | 1,423 |
| Colombia | 1,016 | 1:47,022 | 2,446 |
| Chile | 642 | 1:27,440 | 1,566 |
| United States | 598 | 1:606,119 | 49,257 |
| Spain | 467 | 1:100,111 | 8,173 |
| Mexico | 343 | 1:361,884 | 7,504 |
| Philippines | 255 | 1:397,013 | 51,030 |
| Bolivia | 226 | 1:46,975 | 2,631 |
| Argentina | 66 | 1:647,627 | 45,225 |
| Venezuela | 42 | 1:719,145 | 12,108 |
| Brazil | 25 | 1:8,562,973 | 188,780 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Canada | 16 | 1:2,302,849 | 139,666 |
| Australia | 8 | 1:3,374,463 | 124,818 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Italy | 6 | 1:10,192,781 | 121,657 |
| Costa Rica | 6 | 1:796,678 | 5,462 |
| El Salvador | 4 | 1:1,585,972 | 4,802 |
| Panama | 4 | 1:978,064 | 12,245 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Uruguay | 2 | 1:1,715,879 | 35,955 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
The alternate forms: Cajás (1) & Cájas (1) are calculated separately.
Cajas (54) may also be a first name.
Cajas Demographics
Average Cajas Salary in
United States
$42,891 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Cajas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cajas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cajas is borne by more people in Ecuador than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Cajás or Cájas. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cajas? popularity and diffusion
The last name Cajas is the 29,585th most prevalent last name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 402,538 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Cajas reside; 70 percent reside in South America and 60 percent reside in Andean South America. It is also the 1,350,955th most numerous first name world-wide. It is borne by 54 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Ecuador, where it is borne by 7,482 people, or 1 in 2,126. In Ecuador Cajas is mostly found in: Pichincha Province, where 32 percent reside, Guayas Province, where 20 percent reside and Cotopaxi Province, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Ecuador this last name is found in 37 countries. It is also found in Guatemala, where 20 percent reside and Peru, where 18 percent reside.
Cajas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Cajas surname are 41.21% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 94.44% registered with the party.
The amount Cajas earn in different countries varies significantly. In Peru they earn 14.82% less than the national average, earning S/. 16,513 per year; in Colombia they earn 27.51% less than the national average, earning $16,456,200 COP per year; in United States they earn 0.6% less than the national average, earning $42,891 USD per year and in Canada they earn 21.81% less than the national average, earning $38,845 CAD per year.
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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 Cajas
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