Cañarejo Surname
Approximately 858 people bear this surname
Cañarejo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 429 | 1:37,077 | 4,110 |
| Philippines | 423 | 1:239,334 | 36,283 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
The alternate forms: Canarejo (864) are calculated separately.
Cañarejo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cañarejo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cañarejo is most common in Ecuador. It can also occur as a variant: Canarejo. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cañarejo? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 407,730th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 8,493,643 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 50 percent of Cañarejo are found; 50 percent are found in South America and 50 percent are found in Andean South America.
The surname Cañarejo is most common in Ecuador, where it is held by 429 people, or 1 in 37,077. In Ecuador it is primarily concentrated in: Imbabura Province, where 61 percent reside, Pichincha Province, where 32 percent reside and Carchi Province, where 7 percent reside. Without taking into account Ecuador it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in The Philippines, where 49 percent reside and Spain, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Cañarejo
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