Canais Surname
Approximately 431 people bear this surname
Canais Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 387 | 1:26,921 | 1,745 |
| Brazil | 22 | 1:9,730,651 | 206,332 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Canais Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Canais Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Canais is found most in Portugal. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Canais? popularity and diffusion
The last name Canais is the 687,524th most common last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 16,908,459 people. The surname Canais occurs mostly in Europe, where 93 percent of Canais live; 90 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 90 percent live in Iberian Europe.
This last name is most frequent in Portugal, where it is carried by 387 people, or 1 in 26,921. Other than Portugal this surname is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 5 percent reside and The Netherlands, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Canais
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