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 more commonly found in Angola than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Covilhã or Covilhâ. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Covilha? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,017,195th most frequently held family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 173,512,998 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Covilha reside; 88 percent reside in Southern Africa and 86 percent reside in Luso-Southern Africa.
Covilha is most frequent in Angola, where it is borne by 36 people, or 1 in 749,700. Without taking into account Angola this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 10 percent live and France, where 2 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
- 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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