Canizas Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Canizas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 36 | 1:1,298,668 | 42,856 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Canizas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Canizas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Canizas is held by more people in Spain than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Canizas? popularity and diffusion
Canizas is the 3,100,440th most common surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 182,188,648 people. Canizas occurs predominantly in Europe, where 90 percent of Canizas are found; 90 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 90 percent are found in Iberian Europe.
This surname is most common in Spain, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 1,298,668. In Spain Canizas is most common in: Galicia, where 86 percent reside and Asturias, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Spain it is found in one country. It also occurs in Brazil, where 10 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 Canizas
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