Camões Surname
Approximately 7,399 people bear this surname
Camões Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 5,521 | 1:4,888 | 691 |
| Portugal | 1,651 | 1:6,310 | 613 |
| Brazil | 83 | 1:2,579,209 | 77,959 |
| France | 32 | 1:2,075,710 | 171,237 |
| Luxembourg | 32 | 1:18,142 | 3,979 |
| United States | 13 | 1:27,881,456 | 736,413 |
| Germany | 13 | 1:6,192,728 | 213,814 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Argentina | 6 | 1:7,123,902 | 190,047 |
| Spain | 5 | 1:9,350,407 | 109,555 |
| Mexico | 5 | 1:24,825,241 | 58,251 |
| East Timor | 4 | 1:303,982 | 255 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 4 | 1:44,356 | 2,027 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Cape Verde | 2 | 1:264,821 | 5,214 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Camoes (1,027) are calculated separately.
Camões Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Camões Come From? nationality or country of origin
Camões occurs in Angola more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Camoes. Click here to see other potential spellings of Camões.
How Common Is The Last Name Camões? popularity and diffusion
The surname Camões is the 67,282nd most frequently held last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 984,937 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 75 percent of Camões reside; 75 percent reside in Southern Africa and 75 percent reside in Luso-Southern Africa.
The last name is most frequently held in Angola, where it is held by 5,521 people, or 1 in 4,888. Beside Angola Camões occurs in 26 countries. It is also found in Portugal, where 22 percent live and Brazil, where 1 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
- 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 Camões
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