Carreira Surname
Approximately 32,163 people bear this surname
Carreira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 11,030 | 1:945 | 160 |
| Brazil | 6,691 | 1:31,994 | 1,346 |
| Angola | 5,521 | 1:4,888 | 691 |
| Spain | 3,729 | 1:12,537 | 1,446 |
| France | 1,476 | 1:45,002 | 5,732 |
| United States | 1,306 | 1:277,534 | 25,925 |
| Argentina | 973 | 1:43,930 | 3,710 |
| Canada | 365 | 1:100,947 | 10,954 |
| South Africa | 300 | 1:180,592 | 19,818 |
| Uruguay | 119 | 1:28,838 | 3,324 |
| England | 84 | 1:663,310 | 38,317 |
| Venezuela | 68 | 1:444,178 | 8,844 |
| Panama | 60 | 1:65,204 | 2,877 |
| Switzerland | 52 | 1:157,941 | 14,824 |
| Belgium | 49 | 1:234,625 | 29,441 |
| Mexico | 49 | 1:2,533,188 | 21,064 |
| Germany | 44 | 1:1,829,670 | 103,431 |
| Mozambique | 25 | 1:1,090,463 | 1,880 |
| Luxembourg | 25 | 1:23,222 | 4,671 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 19 | 1:71,788 | 5,445 |
| Australia | 19 | 1:1,420,826 | 73,129 |
| Thailand | 17 | 1:4,155,197 | 336,594 |
| Ireland | 14 | 1:336,353 | 12,021 |
| Andorra | 11 | 1:7,622 | 1,167 |
| Ecuador | 9 | 1:1,767,316 | 20,027 |
| Honduras | 9 | 1:979,605 | 4,574 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 1:2,110,897 | 88,902 |
| Cuba | 6 | 1:1,920,453 | 8,345 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 6 | 1:9,097 | 939 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Marshall Islands | 3 | 1:17,274 | 1,698 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 1:106,243 | 1,380 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
Carreira (65) may also be a first name.
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Carreira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Carreira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Carreira is held by more people in Portugal than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Carreira? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 17,233rd most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 226,582 people. Carreira occurs predominantly in Europe, where 51 percent of Carreira live; 46 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 46 percent live in Iberian Europe. It is also the 1,212,820th most frequently occurring first name world-wide, borne by 65 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Portugal, where it is held by 11,030 people, or 1 in 945. Other than Portugal this surname exists in 69 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 21 percent live and Angola, where 17 percent live.
Carreira Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Carreira surname are 43.41% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 96.64% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Carreira earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 140.65% more than the national average, earning R 571,872 per year; in United States they earn 7.44% more than the national average, earning $46,359 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.2% more than the national average, earning $52,269 CAD per year.
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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
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