Canelhas Surname
Approximately 429 people bear this surname
Canelhas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 274 | 1:38,023 | 2,283 |
| Brazil | 142 | 1:1,507,566 | 50,366 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
The alternate forms: Canêlhas (4) are calculated separately.
Canelhas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Canelhas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Canelhas is most common in Portugal. It may occur in the variant forms: Canêlhas. For other potential spellings of Canelhas click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Canelhas? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 689,921st most widely held last name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 16,987,287 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 66 percent of Canelhas live; 64 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 64 percent live in Iberian Europe.
The surname Canelhas is most commonly occurring in Portugal, where it is carried by 274 people, or 1 in 38,023. Beside Portugal this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Brazil, where 33 percent reside and France, 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
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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 Canelhas
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