Cartaña Surname

807,857th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 346 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Spain
Highest density in:
Spain

Cartaña Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cartaña Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Spain3061:152,78411,245
Argentina311:1,378,82078,351
Venezuela71:4,314,86839,591
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

The alternate forms: Cartana (129), Cartañá (12) & Cartañà (6) are calculated separately.

Cartaña Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cartaña Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cartaña is more commonly found in Spain than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms: Cartana, Cartañá or Cartañà. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Cartaña? popularity and diffusion

It is the 807,857th most numerous family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 21,062,271 people. The surname Cartaña is predominantly found in Europe, where 88 percent of Cartaña are found; 88 percent are found in Southwestern Europe and 88 percent are found in Iberian Europe.

The last name is most commonly occurring in Spain, where it is carried by 306 people, or 1 in 152,784. In Spain Cartaña is most numerous in: Catalonia, where 96 percent are found, Balearic Islands, where 3 percent are found and Andalusia, where 0 percent are found. Barring Spain this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 9 percent are found and Venezuela, where 2 percent are found.

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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 Cartaña
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