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.
Carreira Demographics
Average Male Carreira Height
172.77 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Carreira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Carreira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Carreira is more frequently found in Portugal than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Carreira? popularity and diffusion
The last name Carreira is the 17,233rd most frequent surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 226,582 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 51 percent of Carreira are found; 46 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 46 percent are found in Iberian Europe. It is also the 1,212,820th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 65 people.
The last name Carreira is most commonly used in Portugal, where it is carried by 11,030 people, or 1 in 945. Beside Portugal it occurs in 69 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 21 percent are found and Angola, where 17 percent are found.
Carreira Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Carreira surname are 43.41% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 96.64% being registered with the political 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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