Costa Leite Surname

301,076th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,262 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Brazil

Costa Leite Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Costa Leite Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Brazil1,2581:170,1706,565
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Costa Leite Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Costa Leite Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Costa Leite is held by more people in Brazil than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Costa Leite? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 301,076th most commonly held family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,774,601 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Costa Leite reside; 100 percent reside in South America and 100 percent reside in Luso-South America.

Costa Leite is most numerous in Brazil, where it is held by 1,258 people, or 1 in 170,170. In Brazil it is most frequent in: Maranhão, where 52 percent live, São Paulo, where 10 percent live and Rio de Janeiro, where 6 percent live. Not including Brazil this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Chile, where 0 percent live and France, where 0 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 Costa Leite
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