Covilha Surname
Approximately 42 people bear this surname
Covilha Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 36 | 1:749,700 | 2,649 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
The alternate forms: Covilhã (70) & Covilhâ (1) are calculated separately.
Covilha Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Covilha Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Covilha is most common in Angola. It can occur in the variant forms: Covilhã or Covilhâ. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Covilha? popularity and diffusion
Covilha is the 3,017,195th most common family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Covilha live; 88 percent live in Southern Africa and 86 percent live in Luso-Southern Africa.
Covilha is most frequently used in Angola, where it is held by 36 people, or 1 in 749,700. Apart from Angola Covilha occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 10 percent are found and France, where 2 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
- 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 Covilha
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