Cheganças Surname
Approximately 7 people bear this surname
Cheganças Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
The alternate forms: Chegancas (65) are calculated separately.
Cheganças Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cheganças Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cheganças is carried by more people in Portugal than any other country or territory. It can also occur as: Chegancas. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cheganças? popularity and diffusion
Cheganças is the 7,117,718th most frequently held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. The last name Cheganças occurs mostly in Europe, where 57 percent of Cheganças reside; 57 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 57 percent reside in Iberian Europe.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Portugal, where it is carried by 4 people, or 1 in 2,604,560. Without taking into account Portugal this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Brazil, where 43 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chegancas | 96 | 65 | / |
| Chiganças | 89 | 6 | / |
| Chegansas | 89 | 1 | / |
| Cheganca | 82 | 4 | / |
| Chigancas | 78 | 13 | / |
| Ceganjac | 71 | 8 | / |
| Chiganca | 71 | 5 | / |
| Chiganja | 71 | 3 | / |
| Geganso | 63 | 1 | / |
| Higanza | 63 | 1 | / |
| Shiganza | 59 | 165 | / |
| Sseganja | 59 | 3 | / |
| Segganja | 59 | 1 | / |
| Hingansou | 56 | 5 | / |
| Ssegganja | 56 | 2 | / |
| Sseganjja | 56 | 1 | / |
| Shinganza | 56 | 1 | / |
| Hinganssou | 53 | 1 | / |
| Jiganza | 50 | 443 | / |
| Geganzo | 50 | 209 | / |
| Chegounchei | 50 | 13 | / |
| Siganza | 50 | 1 | / |
| Higanzo | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Cheganças
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