Casteñeira Surname
Approximately 8 people bear this surname
Casteñeira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
The alternate forms: Casteneira (7) are calculated separately.
Casteñeira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Casteñeira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Casteñeira is most common in Cuba. It can occur in the variant forms: Casteneira. Click here for other potential spellings of Casteñeira.
How Common Is The Last Name Casteñeira? popularity and diffusion
The surname Casteñeira is the 6,723,624th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Casteñeira reside; 50 percent reside in Caribbean and 50 percent reside in Hispano-Caribbean.
Casteñeira is most commonly held in Cuba, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 2,880,679. In Cuba Casteñeira is primarily found in: Matanzas Province, where 100 percent live. Besides Cuba it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 38 percent live and Spain, where 13 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
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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 Casteñeira
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