Cortezao Surname
Approximately 319 people bear this surname
Cortezao Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 297 | 1:720,789 | 26,406 |
| Venezuela | 12 | 1:2,517,006 | 28,211 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Cortezão (7) & Cortezáo (1) are calculated separately.
Cortezao Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cortezao Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cortezao is found most frequently in Brazil. It may also appear in the variant forms: Cortezão or Cortezáo. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cortezao? popularity and diffusion
It is the 855,216th most frequently used last name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 22,844,972 people. The surname Cortezao is mostly found in The Americas, where 97 percent of Cortezao reside; 97 percent reside in South America and 93 percent reside in Luso-South America.
It is most widely held in Brazil, where it is carried by 297 people, or 1 in 720,789. In Brazil it is mostly concentrated in: Amazonas, where 68 percent are found, Minas Gerais, where 22 percent are found and São Paulo, where 7 percent are found. Besides Brazil it occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Venezuela, where 4 percent are found and Angola, where 1 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 Cortezao
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