Canielas Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Canielas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 44 | 1:4,865,326 | 126,089 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
The alternate forms: Cañielas (2) are calculated separately.
Canielas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Canielas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Canielas is borne by more people in Brazil than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Cañielas. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Canielas? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,776,799th most widely held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 90 percent of Canielas are found; 90 percent are found in South America and 90 percent are found in Luso-South America.
The last name Canielas is most numerous in Brazil, where it is held by 44 people, or 1 in 4,865,326. In Brazil Canielas is most common in: Rio Grande do Sul, where 86 percent live, Sergipe, where 7 percent live and Federal District, where 2 percent live. Excluding Brazil this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in The Philippines, where 10 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 Canielas
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