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
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Cajas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cajas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cajas has its highest incidence in Ecuador. It can occur in the variant forms: Cajás or Cájas. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cajas? popularity and diffusion
Cajas is the 29,585th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 402,538 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Cajas are found; 70 percent are found in South America and 60 percent are found in Andean South America. It is also the 1,350,955th most common first name in the world, borne by 54 people.
This surname is most widely held in Ecuador, where it is borne by 7,482 people, or 1 in 2,126. In Ecuador it is most common in: Pichincha Province, where 32 percent live, Guayas Province, where 20 percent live and Cotopaxi Province, where 14 percent live. Barring Ecuador Cajas occurs in 37 countries. It is also found in Guatemala, where 20 percent live and Peru, where 18 percent live.
Cajas Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Cajas surname are 41.21% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 94.44% registered with the political 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
- 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 Cajas
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