Castañares Surname
Approximately 11,876 people bear this surname
Castañares Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 8,095 | 1:12,506 | 1,276 |
| Argentina | 2,517 | 1:16,982 | 1,476 |
| Spain | 688 | 1:67,954 | 6,070 |
| Mexico | 430 | 1:288,666 | 6,623 |
| Uruguay | 122 | 1:28,129 | 3,244 |
| Venezuela | 7 | 1:4,314,868 | 39,591 |
| Bolivia | 5 | 1:2,123,287 | 6,830 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
The alternate forms: Castanares (710) are calculated separately.
Castañares Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Castañares Come From? nationality or country of origin
Castañares has its highest incidence in The Philippines. It may also be rendered as: Castanares. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Castañares? popularity and diffusion
It is the 43,767th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 613,636 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 68 percent of Castañares reside; 68 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 68 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.
This last name is most frequently used in The Philippines, where it is held by 8,095 people, or 1 in 12,506. In The Philippines it is most common in: Central Visayas, where 26 percent live, Davao Region, where 14 percent live and Soccsksargen, where 12 percent live. Besides The Philippines Castañares is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 21 percent live and Spain, where 6 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 Castañares
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